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title: On 10 April 2008, the Comoros became the 179th nation to accept the… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: On 10 April 2008, the Comoros became the 179th nation to accept the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Who acts: Comoros. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Comoros» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Comoros, sentence 186

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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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On 10 April 2008, the Comoros became the 179th nation to accept the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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**Who acts:** Comoros · **What happens:** become, accept · **To what, where:** 179th nation, 10, Kyoto Protocol

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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: who acts (Comoros), 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:186
# text = On 10 April 2008, the Comoros became the 179th nation to accept the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Comoros	Comoros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	179th	179th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Kyoto	Kyoto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Protocol	Protocol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	20	compound	_	_
20	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	Framework	Framework	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Convention	Convention	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Climate	Climate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Change	Change	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the Comoros | the 179th nation |  | 10  2008  April |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **accept** | to-infinitive | the Comoros *not said here* | the Kyoto Protocol |  |  |  | to the United Nations and Framework Convention on Climate Change | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent protocol=Theme to nation=be' |

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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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