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title: It supplanted Jaluit Atoll as the administrative center of the Marsh… — Majuro · tree and pragmatics
description: It supplanted Jaluit Atoll as the administrative center of the Marshall Islands, a status that it retains after the independence of the Marshall Islands in 1986 under a Compact of Free Association. Who acts: Republic. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Majuro» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Majuro, sentence 45

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From Wikipedia, [«Majuro»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majuro), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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It supplanted Jaluit Atoll as the administrative center of the Marshall Islands, a status that it retains after the independence of the Marshall Islands in 1986 under a Compact of Free Association.

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**Who acts:** Republic · **What happens:** supplant, retain · **To what, where:** Jaluit, status, 1986

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Majuro». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Republic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Majuro:45
# text = It supplanted Jaluit Atoll as the administrative center of the Marshall Islands, a status that it retains after the independence of the Marshall Islands in 1986 under a Compact of Free Association.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	supplanted	supplant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jaluit	Jaluit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	Atoll	Atoll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Marshall	Marshall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	retains	retain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Marshall	Marshall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Compact	compact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Association	association	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supplant** | past | Republic | Jaluit |  |  |  | as the administrative center of the Marshall Islands | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme jaluit=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **retain** | present | Republic | a status *not said here* |  | 1986 | after the independence of the Marshall Islands | under a Compact of Free Association | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Majuro», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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