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title: There are majority cultural concepts such as the Wantok concept of p… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: There are majority cultural concepts such as the Wantok concept of people with a common language who are blood relatives being part of the extended family support and expected to assist one another and the Pijin term Kastom for both traditional beliefs and traditional land ownership concepts. Who ac
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# Solomon Islands, sentence 381

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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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There are majority cultural concepts such as the Wantok concept of people with a common language who are blood relatives being part of the extended family support and expected to assist one another and the Pijin term Kastom for both traditional beliefs and traditional land ownership concepts.

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**Who acts:** majority cultural concepts, common language · **What happens:** be, expect, assist, conceive · **To what, where:** part, one, people

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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 (majority cultural concepts, common language), 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:381
# text = There are majority cultural concepts such as the Wantok concept of people with a common language who are blood relatives being part of the extended family support and expected to assist one another and the Pijin term Kastom for both traditional beliefs and traditional land ownership concepts.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	majority	majority	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	concepts	concept	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Wantok	Wantok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	concept	concept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	assist	assist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obj	_	_
33	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	fixed	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	Pijin	Pijin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Kastom	kastom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
41	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
45	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	ownership	ownership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	concepts	concept	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | majority cultural concepts such the Wantok concept of people with a common language |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a common language | part |  |  |  | of the extended family support and the Pijin term Kastom for both traditional beliefs and traditional ownership concepts; blood relatives *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **expect** | participle | a common language *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **assist** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a common language *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **conceive** |  |  | people with a common language |  |  |  |  | nom concept «cognition transitive»: of=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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