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title: From the 1820s through the 1850s, the Marshall Islanders became incr… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: From the 1820s through the 1850s, the Marshall Islanders became increasingly hostile to western vessels, possibly because of violent punishments that sea captains exacted for theft as well as the abduction of Marshallese people for sale into slavery on Pacific plantations. Who acts: Marshall Islande
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# Marshall Islands, sentence 63

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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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From the 1820s through the 1850s, the Marshall Islanders became increasingly hostile to western vessels, possibly because of violent punishments that sea captains exacted for theft as well as the abduction of Marshallese people for sale into slavery on Pacific plantations.

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**Who acts:** Marshall Islanders, that · **What happens:** become, captain, exact, abduct · **To what, where:** 1820s, sea captains, slavery, Marshallese people

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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 (Marshall Islanders, that), 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:63
# text = From the 1820s through the 1850s, the Marshall Islanders became increasingly hostile to western vessels, possibly because of violent punishments that sea captains exacted for theft as well as the abduction of Marshallese people for sale into slavery on Pacific plantations.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1820s	1820	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	1850s	1850	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Marshall	Marshall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Islanders	Islander	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	increasingly	increasingly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hostile	hostile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	11	xcomp	_	_
19	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	punishments	punishment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	exacted	exact	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	33	cc	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	fixed	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	abduction	abduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	Marshallese	marshallese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the Marshall Islanders |  |  | the 1820s through the 1850s |  | hostile *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **captain** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **exact** | participle |  | sea captains *not said here* |  | slavery on Pacific plantations |  | for theft; the abduction of Marshallese people for sale *conj* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **abduct** |  |  | Marshallese people for sale |  |  |  |  | nom abduction «act transitive»: of=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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