Tuvalu, sentence 314
From Wikipedia, «Tuvalu», 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 May 2023 the Government of Tuvalu signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sea Shepherd Global, which is based in the Netherlands, to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Tuvalu's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Who acts: Government · What happens: sign, base, combat, unreport · To what, where: Memorandum, Netherlands
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tuvalu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 May | case |
| 2 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 signed | obl |
| 3 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 May | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Government | det |
| 5 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 signed | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Tuvalu | case |
| 7 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Government | nmod |
| 8 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Memorandum | det |
| 10 | Memorandum | Memorandum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 signed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Understanding | case |
| 12 | Understanding | Understanding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Memorandum | nmod |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 MoU | punct |
| 14 | MoU | MoU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Understanding | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 MoU | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Global | case |
| 17 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Shepherd | compound |
| 18 | Shepherd | Shepherd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Global | compound |
| 19 | Global | Global | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Memorandum | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 based | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 based | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 based | aux:pass |
| 23 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Memorandum | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Netherlands | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Netherlands | det |
| 26 | Netherlands | Netherlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 based | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 combat | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 combat | mark |
| 29 | combat | combat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 signed | conj |
| 30 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 combat | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 unreported | punct |
| 32 | unreported | unreport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 combat | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 unregulated | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 unregulated | cc |
| 35 | unregulated | unregulated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 signed | conj |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 IUU | punct |
| 37 | IUU | IUU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 unregulated | appos |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 IUU | punct |
| 39 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 unregulated | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 Zone | case |
| 41 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Zone | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 Tuvalu | case |
| 43 | Exclusive | Exclusive | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Economic | compound |
| 44 | Economic | Economic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Zone | compound |
| 45 | Zone | Zone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 fishing | nmod |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 47 EEZ | punct |
| 47 | EEZ | EEZ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Zone | appos |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 47 EEZ | punct |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past | the Government of Tuvalu | a Memorandum of Understanding | may | with Shepherd Global | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent memorandum=Destination with global=Theme | ||
| 2 | base | present · passive | a Memorandum of Understanding | the Netherlands | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | combat | to-infinitive | the Government of Tuvalu not said here | illegal property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | unreport | participle | the Government of Tuvalu not said here | 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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