--- title: Father A. Erdland, a Catholic priest of the Missionaries of the Sacr… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics description: Father A. Erdland, a Catholic priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Hiltrup (German Empire, called in German Herz-Jesu-Missionare and in Latin Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis), lived in Jaluit between 1904 and 1914. Who acts: Father. 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Erdland, a Catholic priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Hiltrup (German Empire, called in German Herz-Jesu-Missionare and in Latin Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis), lived in Jaluit between 1904 and 1914. **Who acts:** Father · **What happens:** call, live · **To what, where:** German Empire, German, Jaluit · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:212 # text = Father A. Erdland, a Catholic priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Hiltrup (German Empire, called in German Herz-Jesu-Missionare and in Latin Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis), lived in Jaluit between 1904 and 1914. 1 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 2 A. A. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Erdland Erdland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Catholic catholic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Missionaries Missionary PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Sacred Sacred PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Heart Heart PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Hiltrup Hiltrup PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 German German PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 Herz Herz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Jesu Jesu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Missionare Missionare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 Latin Latin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Missionarii Missionarii PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Sacratissimi Sacratissimi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 34 Cordis Cordis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 37 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Jaluit Jaluit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 40 between between ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 1904 1904 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 1914 1914 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | German Empire *not said here* | | German and Jesu and Missionare and Missionarii Sacratissimi | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **live** | past | Father | | | Jaluit | | between 1904 | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jaluit=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 211](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Marshall_Islands/211/) - next →: [sentence 213](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Marshall_Islands/213/) - ↑ back to [Marshall Islands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Marshall_Islands/)