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title: The southern islands receive heavier rainfall than the north, so com… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: The southern islands receive heavier rainfall than the north, so communities in the wet south subsisted on prevalent taro and breadfruit, while northerners were more likely to subsist on pandanus and coconuts. Who acts: southern islands, northerners. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Marshall Islands» with
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# Marshall Islands, sentence 34

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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 southern islands receive heavier rainfall than the north, so communities in the wet south subsisted on prevalent taro and breadfruit, while northerners were more likely to subsist on pandanus and coconuts.

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**Who acts:** southern islands, northerners · **What happens:** receive, subsist, be · **To what, where:** heavier 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 (southern islands, northerners), 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:34
# text = The southern islands receive heavier rainfall than the north, so communities in the wet south subsisted on prevalent taro and breadfruit, while northerners were more likely to subsist on pandanus and coconuts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	receive	receive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
16	south	south	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	subsisted	subsist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	prevalent	prevalent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	taro	taro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	breadfruit	breadfruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	northerners	northerner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	subsist	subsist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	pandanus	pandanus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	coconuts	coconut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | present | the southern islands | heavier rainfall |  |  |  | than the north | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rainfall=Theme |
| 2 | **subsist** | participle | the southern islands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on prevalent taro and breadfruit; south *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on taro=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | northerners |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **subsist** | to-infinitive | northerners *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on pandanus and coconuts | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on pandanus=Patient |

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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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