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title: Soil quality ranges from extremely rich volcanic (there are volcanoe… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: Soil quality ranges from extremely rich volcanic (there are volcanoes with varying degrees of activity on some of the larger islands) to relatively infertile limestone. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Solomon Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Solomon Islands, sentence 260

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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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Soil quality ranges from extremely rich volcanic (there are volcanoes with varying degrees of activity on some of the larger islands) to relatively infertile limestone.

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**What happens:** be, vary · **To what, where:** rich volcanic volcanoes, quality ranges

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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: 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:260
# text = Soil quality ranges from extremely rich volcanic (there are volcanoes with varying degrees of activity on some of the larger islands) to relatively infertile limestone.
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ranges	range	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
5	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
7	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	varying	vary	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
25	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	infertile	infertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	limestone	limestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | rich volcanic volcanoes |  | with varying degrees of activity on some of the larger islands; infertile limestone *acl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **vary** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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