--- title: The German presence, along with pressure from the missionaries to re… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics description: The German presence, along with pressure from the missionaries to rein in the excesses of the coercive labour recruitment practices, known as blackbirding, prompted the British to declare a protectorate over the southern Solomons in March 1893, initially encompassing New Georgia, Malaita, Guadalcana --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Solomon Islands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/) / 61 # Solomon Islands, sentence 61 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. The German presence, along with pressure from the missionaries to rein in the excesses of the coercive labour recruitment practices, known as blackbirding, prompted the British to declare a protectorate over the southern Solomons in March 1893, initially encompassing New Georgia, Malaita, Guadalcanal, Makira, Mono Island and the central Nggela Islands. **Who acts:** German presence · **What happens:** rein, know, prompt, declare, encompass · **To what, where:** excesses, coercive recruitment practices, protectorate, southern Solomons, New Georgia 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 (German presence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:61 # text = The German presence, along with pressure from the missionaries to rein in the excesses of the coercive labour recruitment practices, known as blackbirding, prompted the British to declare a protectorate over the southern Solomons in March 1893, initially encompassing New Georgia, Malaita, Guadalcanal, Makira, Mono Island and the central Nggela Islands. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 along along ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 missionaries missionary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 rein rein VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 excesses excess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 coercive coercive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 recruitment recruitment NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 practices practice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 blackbirding blackbirding NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 27 prompted prompt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 declare declare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 protectorate protectorate NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 over over ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 Solomons Solomon PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 40 1893 1893 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 initially initially ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 encompassing encompass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 44 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 Georgia Georgia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 Malaita Malaita PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 Guadalcanal Guadalcanal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 Makira Makira PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 Mono Mono PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 57 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 58 Nggela Nggela PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 compound _ _ 59 Islands Island PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rein** | to-infinitive | the German presence *not said here* | | | the excesses of the coercive recruitment practices | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | participle | | the coercive recruitment practices *not said here* | | | | as blackbirding | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as blackbirding=Attribute | | 3 | **prompt** | past | the German presence | | | | | british *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition | | 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the German presence *not said here* | a protectorate | | the southern Solomons | | in March 1893 | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protectorate=Attribute | | 5 | **encompass** | gerund | the German presence *not said here* | New Georgia and Malaita and Guadalcanal and Makira and Mono Island | | | | the central Nggela Islands *conj*; initially *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot georgia=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/62/) - ↑ back to [Solomon Islands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/)