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title: German copra traders dominated the economy in the 1870s and 1880s, a… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: German copra traders dominated the economy in the 1870s and 1880s, and the German Empire annexed the Marshalls as a protectorate in 1885. Who acts: German copra traders, German Empire. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Marshall Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Marshall Islands, sentence 15

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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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German copra traders dominated the economy in the 1870s and 1880s, and the German Empire annexed the Marshalls as a protectorate in 1885.

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**Who acts:** German copra traders, German Empire · **What happens:** dominate, annex · **To what, where:** economy, 1870s, Marshalls, 1885

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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 (German copra traders, German Empire), 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:15
# text = German copra traders dominated the economy in the 1870s and 1880s, and the German Empire annexed the Marshalls as a protectorate in 1885.
1	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	copra	copra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dominated	dominate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	1870s	1870	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	1880s	1880	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	annexed	annex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Marshalls	marshall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	protectorate	protectorate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1885	1885	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dominate** | past | German copra traders | the economy |  | the 1870s and 1880s |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme economy=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **annex** | past | the German Empire | the Marshalls |  | 1885 |  | as a protectorate | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marshall=Theme |

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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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