Kiribati, sentence 174
From Wikipedia, «Kiribati», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In 2009, President Tong attended the Climate Vulnerable Forum (V11) in the Maldives, with 10 other countries that are vulnerable to climate change, and signed the Bandos Island declaration on 10 November 2009, pledging to show moral leadership and commence greening their economies by voluntarily committing to achieving carbon neutrality.
Who acts: President, 10 other countries · What happens: attend, be, sign, pledge, show, commence · To what, where: Climate Vulnerable Forum, 2009, Island declaration, 10, moral leadership, economies
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kiribati». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (President, 10 other countries), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2009 | case |
| 2 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 attended | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2009 | punct |
| 4 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 attended | nsubj |
| 5 | Tong | Tong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 President | flat |
| 6 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Forum | det |
| 8 | Climate | Climate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Forum | compound |
| 9 | Vulnerable | Vulnerable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Forum | compound |
| 10 | Forum | Forum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 attended | obj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 V11 | punct |
| 12 | V11 | v11 | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 10 Forum | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 V11 | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Maldives | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Maldives | det |
| 16 | Maldives | Maldive | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 Forum | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 countries | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 countries | case |
| 19 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 countries | nummod |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 countries | amod |
| 21 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 attended | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 vulnerable | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 vulnerable | cop |
| 24 | vulnerable | vulnerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 countries | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 change | case |
| 26 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 change | compound |
| 27 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 vulnerable | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 signed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 signed | cc |
| 30 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 attended | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 declaration | det |
| 32 | Bandos | Bandos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Island | compound |
| 33 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 declaration | compound |
| 34 | declaration | declaration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 signed | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 10 | case |
| 36 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 signed | obl |
| 37 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 38 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 pledging | punct |
| 40 | pledging | pledge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 signed | advcl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 show | mark |
| 42 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 pledging | xcomp |
| 43 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 leadership | amod |
| 44 | leadership | leadership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 show | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 commence | cc |
| 46 | commence | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 show | conj |
| 47 | greening | green | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 commence | xcomp |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 economies | nmod:poss |
| 49 | economies | economy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 greening | obj |
| 50 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 52 committing | mark |
| 51 | voluntarily | voluntarily | ADV | _ | 52 committing | advmod |
| 52 | committing | commit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 47 greening | advcl |
| 53 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 54 achieving | mark |
| 54 | achieving | achieve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 52 committing | advcl |
| 55 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 neutrality | compound |
| 56 | neutrality | neutrality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 achieving | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 attended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | past | President | the Climate Vulnerable Forum | 2009 | in the Maldives; with 10 other countries | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forum=Goal | ||
| 2 | is | present | 10 other countries | to climate change; vulnerable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sign | past | President not said here | the Island declaration | 10 November 2009 | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent declaration=Theme on 10=Destination | |||
| 4 | pledge | gerund | President not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | show | to-infinitive | President not said here | moral leadership | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leadership=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | commence | present | President not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | green | gerund | President not said here | Maldives's economies | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | commit | gerund | President not said here | voluntarily property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | achieve | gerund | President not said here | carbon neutrality | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neutrality=Eventuality |
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, «Kiribati», 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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