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title: Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an archipelag… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an archipelagic country consisting of six major islands and over 1,000 smaller islands in Melanesia, Oceania, to the north-east of Australia. Who acts: Solomon Islands, archipelagic country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Solomon Islands» with its d
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# Solomon Islands, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Solomon Islands»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_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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Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an archipelagic country consisting of six major islands and over 1,000 smaller islands in Melanesia, Oceania, to the north-east of Australia.

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**Who acts:** Solomon Islands, archipelagic country · **What happens:** know, be, consist · **To what, where:** Solomon Islands, archipelagic country, Melanesia

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Solomon Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Solomon Islands, archipelagic country), 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:Solomon_Islands:1
# text = Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an archipelagic country consisting of six major islands and over 1,000 smaller islands in Melanesia, Oceania, to the north-east of Australia.
1	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Solomons	Solomon	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	archipelagic	archipelagic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	consisting	consist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	over	over	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Melanesia	Melanesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Oceania	Oceania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | Solomon Islands *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Solomons | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as solomon=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Solomon Islands | a archipelagic country and the north east of Australia |  |  |  | the north east of Australia *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **consist** | gerund | a archipelagic country and the north east of Australia *not said here* |  |  | Melanesia and Oceania |  | of six major islands and 1,000 smaller islands | tree rules |

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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, «Solomon 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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