Kiribati, sentence 18
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.
Kiribati is one of the least developed countries in the world and its government is highly dependent on fishing licence fees from foreign fleets and international capital aid to finance infrastructure and other projects.
Who acts: Kiribati, government · What happens: be, develop, finance · To what, where: one, fishing licence fees, infrastructure
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 (Kiribati, government), 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 | Kiribati | Kiribati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 countries | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 countries | det |
| 6 | least | least | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 developed | advmod |
| 7 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 countries | amod |
| 8 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 countries | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dependent | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 government | nmod:poss |
| 14 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dependent | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dependent | cop |
| 16 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 17 dependent | advmod |
| 17 | dependent | dependent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 fees | case |
| 19 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fees | compound |
| 20 | licence | licence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fees | compound |
| 21 | fees | fee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dependent | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 fleets | case |
| 23 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fleets | amod |
| 24 | fleets | fleet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fees | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 aid | cc |
| 26 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 aid | amod |
| 27 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 aid | compound |
| 28 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fees | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 finance | mark |
| 30 | finance | finance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 aid | acl |
| 31 | infrastructure | infrastructure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 finance | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 projects | cc |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 projects | amod |
| 34 | projects | project | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 infrastructure | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kiribati | one | of the developed countries in the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | develop | participle | least property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | country's government | fishing licence fees from foreign fleets and international capital aid | dependent, highly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | finance | to-infinitive | country's government not said here | infrastructure and other projects | tree rules |
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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