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title: The Marshalls also continued to be a major producer of copra during… — Marshall Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: The Marshalls also continued to be a major producer of copra during the Japanese period, with the taking over the Jaluit Company's operations and building upon the German colonial infrastructure. Who acts: Marshalls, Jaluit Company. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Marshall Islands» with its dependency tr
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# Marshall Islands, sentence 97

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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 Marshalls also continued to be a major producer of copra during the Japanese period, with the taking over the Jaluit Company's operations and building upon the German colonial infrastructure.

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**Who acts:** Marshalls, Jaluit Company · **What happens:** continue, be, operate · **To what, where:** major producer

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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 (Marshalls, Jaluit Company), 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:97
# text = The Marshalls also continued to be a major producer of copra during the Japanese period, with the taking over the Jaluit Company's operations and building upon the German colonial infrastructure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Marshalls	marshall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	producer	producer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	copra	copra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	taking	taking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Jaluit	Jaluit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the Marshalls |  |  |  | during the Japanese period | with the taking over the Jaluit Company's operations upon the German colonial infrastructure and building | vn continue-55.3 «NP.eventuality V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with taking=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the Marshalls *not said here* | a major producer |  |  |  | of copra | tree rules |
| 3 | **operate** |  | the Jaluit Company |  |  |  |  |  | nom operation «state 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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