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title: In February 2018, the Marshall Islands became the first country in t… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: In February 2018, the Marshall Islands became the first country in the world to recognize its cryptocurrency as its own legal tender for digital currency. Who acts: Marshall Islands, cryptocurrency. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Marshall Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Marshall Islands, sentence 127

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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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In February 2018, the Marshall Islands became the first country in the world to recognize its cryptocurrency as its own legal tender for digital currency.

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**Who acts:** Marshall Islands, cryptocurrency · **What happens:** become, recognize, tender · **To what, where:** first country, cryptocurrency

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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 (Marshall Islands, cryptocurrency), 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:127
# text = In February 2018, the Marshall Islands became the first country in the world to recognize its cryptocurrency as its own legal tender for digital currency.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Marshall	Marshall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	cryptocurrency	cryptocurrency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	digital	digital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	currency	currency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the Marshall Islands | the first country in the world |  |  | february |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recognize** | to-infinitive | the Marshall Islands *not said here* | world's cryptocurrency |  |  |  | as cryptocurrency's own legal tender for digital currency | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cryptocurrency=Stimulus as tender=Attribute |
| 3 | **tender** |  | cryptocurrency |  |  |  |  | for digital currency | nom tender «possession transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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