--- title: Following the 2015 seizure of the MV Maersk Tigris, the United State… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics description: Following the 2015 seizure of the MV Maersk Tigris, the United States announced that its treaty obligation to defend the Marshall Islands did not extend to foreign-owned Marshallese flag vessels at sea. Who acts: United States, treaty obligation, Marshall Islands, state. 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Following the 2015 seizure of the MV Maersk Tigris, the United States announced that its treaty obligation to defend the Marshall Islands did not extend to foreign-owned Marshallese flag vessels at sea. **Who acts:** United States, treaty obligation, Marshall Islands, state · **What happens:** follow, announce, defend, not extend, own, seize · **To what, where:** 2015 seizure, owned Marshallese flag vessels, Maersk Tigris · **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 (United States, treaty obligation, Marshall Islands, state), 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:319 # text = Following the 2015 seizure of the MV Maersk Tigris, the United States announced that its treaty obligation to defend the Marshall Islands did not extend to foreign-owned Marshallese flag vessels at sea. 1 Following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 2015 2015 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 seizure seizure NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 MV MV PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Maersk Maersk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Tigris Tigris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 United United ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 treaty treaty NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 obligation obligation NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 defend defend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Marshall Marshall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Islands Island PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 extend extend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 28 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 owned own VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 31 Marshallese marshallese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 vessels vessel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | the 2015 seizure of the Maersk Tigris | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seizure=Theme | | 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the United States | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **defend** | to-infinitive | state's treaty obligation | | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Beneficiary | | 4 | **not** **extend** | past · do-support | the Marshall Islands | | owned Marshallese flag vessels at sea | | | | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to vessel=Recipient | | 5 | **own** | participle | | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **seize** | | | the Maersk Tigris | | | | | nom seizure «state transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **obligate** | | state | | | | | | nom obligation «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 318](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Marshall_Islands/318/) - next →: [sentence 320](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Marshall_Islands/320/) - ↑ back to [Marshall Islands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Marshall_Islands/)