Nauru, sentence 264

From Wikipedia, «Nauru», 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.

Historically, Nauruans kept household gardens that provided much of the food that they needed through subsistence farming, with the most common food plants including coconuts, breadfruit, bananas, pandanus, papaya, and guavas.

Who acts: Nauruans, household gardens, Nauruan · What happens: keep, provide, need · To what, where: household gardens, much, subsistence farming

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nauru». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nauruans, household gardens, Nauruan), 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	Historically	historically	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Historically	punct
3	Nauruans	Nauruan	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gardens	compound
6	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 provided	nsubj
8	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gardens	acl:relcl
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 provided	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 food	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 food	det
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 much	nmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 needed	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 needed	nsubj
15	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 much	advcl
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 farming	case
17	subsistence	subsistence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 farming	compound
18	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 needed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 plants	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	25 plants	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 plants	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 common	advmod
23	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 plants	amod
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plants	compound
25	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 needed	obl
26	including	including	ADP	_	27 coconuts	case
27	coconuts	coconut	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 plants	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 breadfruit	punct
29	breadfruit	breadfruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plants	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bananas	punct
31	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 breadfruit	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pandanus	punct
33	pandanus	pandanus	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 breadfruit	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 papaya	punct
35	papaya	papaya	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 breadfruit	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 guavas	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 guavas	cc
38	guavas	guava	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Nauruans	household gardens		guavas obl; historically property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme
2	provide	past	household gardens	much of the food			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition much=Theme
3	need	past	Nauruan		subsistence farming	with the common food plants including coconuts	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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, «Nauru», 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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Nauru, sentence 264