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title: However, the colony remained something of a backwater, with educatio… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the colony remained something of a backwater, with education, medical and other social services being under the administration of the missionaries. Who acts: colony, other social services. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Solomon Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Solomon Islands, sentence 75

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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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However, the colony remained something of a backwater, with education, medical and other social services being under the administration of the missionaries.

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**Who acts:** colony, other social services · **What happens:** remain, be · **To what, where:** something, administration

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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 (colony, other social services), 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:75
# text = However, the colony remained something of a backwater, with education, medical and other social services being under the administration of the missionaries.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	backwater	backwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the colony | something of a backwater |  |  |  | with education; however *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | other social services |  |  | the administration |  | of the missionaries | tree rules |

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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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