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title: The northern atolls get 50 in of rainfall annually; the southern ato… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: The northern atolls get 50 in of rainfall annually; the southern atolls about twice that. Who acts: northern atolls. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Marshall Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Marshall Islands, sentence 165

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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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The northern atolls get 50 in of rainfall annually; the southern atolls about twice that.

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**Who acts:** northern atolls · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** 50, rainfall

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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 (northern atolls), 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:165
# text = The northern atolls get 50 in of rainfall annually; the southern atolls about twice that.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	atolls	atoll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	atolls	atoll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | the northern atolls | 50 |  | rainfall |  | the southern atolls  that *parataxis*; annually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 50=Stimulus |

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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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