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title: Although the infant mortality rate in the Comoros declined sharply f… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: Although the infant mortality rate in the Comoros declined sharply from 152 to 47 deaths per 1,000 live births between 1970 and 2020, it remains high compared to rates in developed countries. Who acts: infant mortality rate, rate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Comoros» with its dependency tree and prag
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# Comoros, sentence 250

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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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Although the infant mortality rate in the Comoros declined sharply from 152 to 47 deaths per 1,000 live births between 1970 and 2020, it remains high compared to rates in developed countries.

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**Who acts:** infant mortality rate, rate · **What happens:** decline, remain, compare, develop · **To what, where:** 152 deaths

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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 (infant mortality rate, rate), 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:250
# text = Although the infant mortality rate in the Comoros declined sharply from 152 to 47 deaths per 1,000 live births between 1970 and 2020, it remains high compared to rates in developed countries.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	mortality	mortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Comoros	Comoros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	declined	decline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	152	152	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	47	47	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	per	per	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	births	birth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1970	1970	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decline** | past | the infant mortality rate in the Comoros |  |  | 152 deaths  1,000 live births between 1970 |  | sharply *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **remain** | present | rate |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **compare** | participle | rate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to rates in developed countries; high *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **develop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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