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title: Many Pacific typhoons begin as tropical storms in the Marshall Islan… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: Many Pacific typhoons begin as tropical storms in the Marshall Islands region and grow stronger as they move west toward the Mariana Islands and the Philippines. Who acts: Many Pacific typhoons, typhoons. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Marshall Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Marshall Islands, sentence 163

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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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Many Pacific typhoons begin as tropical storms in the Marshall Islands region and grow stronger as they move west toward the Mariana Islands and the Philippines.

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**Who acts:** Many Pacific typhoons, typhoons · **What happens:** begin, grow, move · **To what, where:** Islands region, Mariana Islands

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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 (Many Pacific typhoons, typhoons), 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:163
# text = Many Pacific typhoons begin as tropical storms in the Marshall Islands region and grow stronger as they move west toward the Mariana Islands and the Philippines.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	typhoons	typhoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Marshall	Marshall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	west	west	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Mariana	Mariana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Philippines	Philippines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Ptan	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present | Many Pacific typhoons |  |  | the Islands region |  | as tropical storms | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | present | Many Pacific typhoons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | present | typhoons *= typhoon* |  |  | the Mariana Islands and the Philippines |  | west *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme toward island=Trajectory |

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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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