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title: This expedition named the islands 'Los Pintados' or "the Painted One… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: This expedition named the islands 'Los Pintados' or "the Painted Ones" for the natives who wore tattoos. Who acts: natives. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Marshall Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Marshall Islands, sentence 54

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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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This expedition named the islands 'Los Pintados' or "the Painted Ones" for the natives who wore tattoos.

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**Who acts:** natives · **What happens:** name, wear · **To what, where:** expedition, tattoos

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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 (natives), 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:54
# text = This expedition named the islands 'Los Pintados' or "the Painted Ones" for the natives who wore tattoos.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	_
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
8	Pintados	Pintados	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Painted	Painted	PROPN	NNP	_	14	compound	_	_
14	Ones	One	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	tattoos	tattoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle |  | this expedition *not said here* |  |  |  | for the natives; the islands's Los Painted Ones *conj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wear** | past | the natives | tattoos |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tattoo=Source |

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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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