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title: In December 1952 a specimen of the West Indian Ocean coelacanth fish… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: In December 1952 a specimen of the West Indian Ocean coelacanth fish was re-discovered off the Comoros coast. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Comoros» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Comoros, sentence 151

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From Wikipedia, [«Comoros»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros), 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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In December 1952 a specimen of the West Indian Ocean coelacanth fish was re-discovered off the Comoros coast.

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**What happens:** re-discover · **To what, where:** specimen

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Comoros». 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:Comoros:151
# text = In December 1952 a specimen of the West Indian Ocean coelacanth fish was re-discovered off the Comoros coast.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	1952	1952	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	coelacanth	coelacanth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	re-discovered	re-discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Comoros	Comoros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **re-discover** | past · passive |  | a specimen of the Ocean coelacanth fish |  |  | december | off the Comoros coast | tree rules |

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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, «Comoros», 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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