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title: As of 2007 power authorities, private companies, and entrepreneurs o… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: As of 2007 power authorities, private companies, and entrepreneurs on the islands had been experimenting with coconut oil as alternative to diesel fuel for vehicles, power generators, and ships. Who acts: entrepreneurs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Marshall Islands» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Marshall Islands, sentence 342

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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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As of 2007 power authorities, private companies, and entrepreneurs on the islands had been experimenting with coconut oil as alternative to diesel fuel for vehicles, power generators, and ships.

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**Who acts:** entrepreneurs · **What happens:** experiment, diesel · **To what, where:** 2007 power authorities, fuel

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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 (entrepreneurs), 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:342
# text = As of 2007 power authorities, private companies, and entrepreneurs on the islands had been experimenting with coconut oil as alternative to diesel fuel for vehicles, power generators, and ships.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	entrepreneurs	entrepreneur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux	_	_
17	experimenting	experiment	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	coconut	coconut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	alternative	alternative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	diesel	diesel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
25	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	vehicles	vehicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	generators	generator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **experiment** | past · perfect · progressive | entrepreneurs on the islands | 2007 power authorities and private companies *not said here* |  |  |  | with coconut oil; as alternative | tree rules |
| 2 | **diesel** | to-infinitive | entrepreneurs on the islands *not said here* | fuel |  |  |  | for vehicles and power generators and ships | tree rules |

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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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