--- title: U.S. Admiral William Halsey, the commander of Allied forces during t… — Solomon Islands · tree and pragmatics description: U.S. Admiral William Halsey, the commander of Allied forces during the Battle for Guadalcanal, recognised the coastwatchers' contributions by stating "The coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal and Guadalcanal saved the South Pacific." Who acts: U.S., coastwatchers, Guadalcanal. 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U.S. Admiral William Halsey, the commander of Allied forces during the Battle for Guadalcanal, recognised the coastwatchers' contributions by stating "The coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal and Guadalcanal saved the South Pacific." **Who acts:** U.S., coastwatchers, Guadalcanal · **What happens:** ally, recognise, state, save, contribute · **To what, where:** contributions, South Pacific · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (U.S., coastwatchers, Guadalcanal), 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:89 # text = U.S. Admiral William Halsey, the commander of Allied forces during the Battle for Guadalcanal, recognised the coastwatchers' contributions by stating "The coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal and Guadalcanal saved the South Pacific." 1 U.S. U.S. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 2 Admiral Admiral PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 list _ _ 4 Halsey Halsey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 commander commander NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 Allied ally VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 forces force NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 during during ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Battle Battle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Guadalcanal Guadalcanal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 17 recognised recognise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 coastwatchers coastwatcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ' 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 contributions contribution NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 stating state VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 coastwatchers coastwatcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 Guadalcanal Guadalcanal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 Guadalcanal Guadalcanal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ally** | participle | | | | | | | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **recognise** | past | U.S. William | the coastwatchers's contributions | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer contribution=Stimulus | | 3 | **state** *speech: other* | gerund | U.S. William *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **save** *in a quote* | past | the coastwatchers | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **save** *in a quote* | past | Guadalcanal and Guadalcanal | the South Pacific | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pacific=Theme | | 6 | **contribute** | | the coastwatchers | | | | | | nom contribution «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/90/) - ↑ back to [Solomon Islands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Solomon_Islands/)