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title: Government buildings were shifted to a less exposed site 3 km (≈ 2 m… — Alofi · tree and pragmatics
description: Government buildings were shifted to a less exposed site 3 km (≈ 2 mi) inland from the west coast, named Fonuakula, after the storm. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Alofi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Alofi, sentence 8

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From Wikipedia, [«Alofi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alofi), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Government buildings were shifted to a less exposed site 3 km (≈ 2 mi) inland from the west coast, named Fonuakula, after the storm.

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**What happens:** shift, expose, name · **To what, where:** Government buildings, west coast

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Alofi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:Alofi:8
# text = Government buildings were shifted to a less exposed site 3 km (≈ 2 mi) inland from the west coast, named Fonuakula, after the storm.
1	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	shifted	shift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	exposed	expose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	≈	≈	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	mi	mi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
24	Fonuakula	Fonuakula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shift** | past · passive |  | Government buildings |  | the west coast |  | to a exposed site *result*; 3 km *obl*; the storm *parataxis* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: subject=Extent to site=Result from coast=Initial\_State |
| 2 | **expose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Fonuakula *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Alofi», 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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