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title: In June 1893, Captain Herbert Gibson of declared the southern Solomo… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: In June 1893, Captain Herbert Gibson of declared the southern Solomon Islands a British protectorate. Who acts: Herbert Gibson. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Solomon Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Solomon Islands, sentence 10

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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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In June 1893, Captain Herbert Gibson of declared the southern Solomon Islands a British protectorate.

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**Who acts:** Herbert Gibson · **What happens:** declare · **To what, where:** southern Solomon Islands

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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 (Herbert Gibson), 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:10
# text = In June 1893, Captain Herbert Gibson of declared the southern Solomon Islands a British protectorate.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	1893	1893	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Herbert	Herbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Gibson	Gibson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	protectorate	protectorate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Herbert Gibson | the southern Solomon Islands |  |  | june |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Attribute |

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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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