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title: The Samoatel building (2004) which is the site for Samoa's internati… — Apia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Samoatel building (2004) which is the site for Samoa's international telecommunications hub, was built inland at Maluafou, also to protect it from the effects of seasonal cyclones. Who acts: Samoatel building. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Apia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Apia, sentence 53

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From Wikipedia, [«Apia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apia), 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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The Samoatel building (2004) which is the site for Samoa's international telecommunications hub, was built inland at Maluafou, also to protect it from the effects of seasonal cyclones.

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**Who acts:** Samoatel building · **What happens:** be, build, protect, effect · **To what, where:** site, Samoatel building, Maluafou, building, seasonal cyclones

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Apia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Samoatel building), 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:Apia:53
# text = The Samoatel building (2004) which is the site for Samoa's international telecommunications hub, was built inland at Maluafou, also to protect it from the effects of seasonal cyclones.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Samoatel	Samoatel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	telecommunications	telecommunication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	_
16	hub	hub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Maluafou	Maluafou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	seasonal	seasonal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	cyclones	cyclone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Samoatel building  2004 and the site | the site |  |  |  | for Samoa's telecommunications hub | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | past · passive |  | the Samoatel building  2004 and the site |  | Maluafou |  | inland *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **protect** | to-infinitive |  | building |  |  |  | from the effects of seasonal cyclones | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from effect=Theme |
| 4 | **effect** |  |  | seasonal cyclones |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Apia», 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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