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title: The Samoan Islands result geologically from volcanism originating fr… — Samoa · tree and pragmatics
description: The Samoan Islands result geologically from volcanism originating from the Samoa hotspot, which is probably driven by a mantle plume. Who acts: volcanism, mantle plume. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Samoa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Samoa, sentence 208

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From Wikipedia, [«Samoa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa), 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 Samoan Islands result geologically from volcanism originating from the Samoa hotspot, which is probably driven by a mantle plume.

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**Who acts:** volcanism, mantle plume · **What happens:** originate, drive · **To what, where:** Samoa hotspot, volcanism

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Samoa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (volcanism, mantle plume), 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:Samoa:208
# text = The Samoan Islands result geologically from volcanism originating from the Samoa hotspot, which is probably driven by a mantle plume.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Samoan	Samoan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	geologically	geologically	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	volcanism	volcanism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	originating	originate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	hotspot	hotspot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	plume	plume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **originate** | gerund | volcanism  Islands result *not said here* |  |  | the Samoa hotspot |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drive** | present · passive | a mantle plume | the Samoa hotspot |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory |

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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, «Samoa», 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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