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title: RAMSI had a small military detachment headed by an Australian comman… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: RAMSI had a small military detachment headed by an Australian commander with responsibilities for assisting the police element of RAMSI in internal and external security. Who acts: RAMSI. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Solomon Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Solomon Islands, sentence 229

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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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RAMSI had a small military detachment headed by an Australian commander with responsibilities for assisting the police element of RAMSI in internal and external security.

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**Who acts:** RAMSI · **What happens:** have, head, assist · **To what, where:** small military detachment, police element, internal security

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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 (RAMSI), 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:229
# text = RAMSI had a small military detachment headed by an Australian commander with responsibilities for assisting the police element of RAMSI in internal and external security.
1	RAMSI	RAMSI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	detachment	detachment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	responsibilities	responsibility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	assisting	assist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	RAMSI	RAMSI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	external	external	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | RAMSI | a small military detachment |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detachment=Patient |
| 2 | **head** | participle |  | a small military detachment *not said here* |  |  |  | by a Australian commander with responsibilities | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **assist** | gerund |  | the police element of RAMSI |  | internal security |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent element=Beneficiary |

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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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