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title: There are ongoing concerns about deterioration of the waste site and… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: There are ongoing concerns about deterioration of the waste site and a potential radioactive spill. Who acts: ongoing concerns, waste site. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Marshall Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Marshall Islands, sentence 126

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From Wikipedia, [«Marshall Islands»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands), 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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There are ongoing concerns about deterioration of the waste site and a potential radioactive spill.

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**Who acts:** ongoing concerns, waste site · **What happens:** be, deteriorate

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Marshall Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ongoing concerns, waste site), 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:Marshall_Islands:126
# text = There are ongoing concerns about deterioration of the waste site and a potential radioactive spill.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ongoing	ongoing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	concerns	concern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	deterioration	deterioration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	potential	potential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	radioactive	radioactive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	spill	spill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | ongoing concerns about deterioration of the waste site and a potential radioactive spill |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **deteriorate** |  | the waste site |  |  |  |  |  | nom deterioration «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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, «Marshall Islands», 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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