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title: The Comorian National Institute of Statistics has found that the tot… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: The Comorian National Institute of Statistics has found that the total fertility rate (TFR) in the country has decreased over time, from a peak of 7.14 in 1973 to 3.98 in 2021. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Comoros» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Comoros, sentence 249

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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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The Comorian National Institute of Statistics has found that the total fertility rate (TFR) in the country has decreased over time, from a peak of 7.14 in 1973 to 3.98 in 2021.

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**What happens:** find, decrease · **To what, where:** Comorian National Institute, total fertility rate, peak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:249
# text = The Comorian National Institute of Statistics has found that the total fertility rate (TFR) in the country has decreased over time, from a peak of 7.14 in 1973 to 3.98 in 2021.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Comorian	Comorian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Institute	Institute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Statistics	Statistics	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	fertility	fertility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	TFR	tfr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	decreased	decrease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	7.14	7.14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	3.98	3.98	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Comorian National Institute of Statistics |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **decrease** | present · perfect · passive |  | the total fertility rate in the country |  | a peak of 7.14 in 1973 to 3.98 in 2021 | time |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: subject=Extent from peak=Initial\_State |

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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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