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title: The German commercial interests formed the joint-stock Jaluit Compan… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: The German commercial interests formed the joint-stock Jaluit Company, which was responsible for financing the colony's administration. Who acts: German commercial interests, Jaluit Company, colony. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Marshall Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Marshall Islands, sentence 85

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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 German commercial interests formed the joint-stock Jaluit Company, which was responsible for financing the colony's administration.

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**Who acts:** German commercial interests, Jaluit Company, colony · **What happens:** form, be, finance, administer · **To what, where:** Jaluit Company, administration

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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 (German commercial interests, Jaluit Company, colony), 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:85
# text = The German commercial interests formed the joint-stock Jaluit Company, which was responsible for financing the colony's administration.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Jaluit	Jaluit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	financing	finance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past | the German commercial interests | the Jaluit Company  joint stock |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Jaluit Company  joint stock |  |  |  |  | responsible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **finance** | gerund | the Jaluit Company  joint stock *not said here* | the colony's administration |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **administer** |  | the colony |  |  |  |  |  | nom administration «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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