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title: The ada is often criticized because of its great expense, but at the… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics
description: The ada is often criticized because of its great expense, but at the same time it is a source of social cohesion and the main reason why migrants in France and elsewhere continue to send money home. Who acts: ada, migrants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Comoros» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Comoros, sentence 290

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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 ada is often criticized because of its great expense, but at the same time it is a source of social cohesion and the main reason why migrants in France and elsewhere continue to send money home.

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**Who acts:** ada, migrants · **What happens:** criticize, be, continue, send · **To what, where:** ada, source, money

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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 (ada, migrants), 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:290
# text = The ada is often criticized because of its great expense, but at the same time it is a source of social cohesion and the main reason why migrants in France and elsewhere continue to send money home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ada	ada	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	criticized	criticize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cohesion	cohesion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
28	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
29	migrants	migrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	home	home	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **criticize** | present · passive |  | the ada |  |  | time | because ada's great expense; often *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | ada | a source |  |  |  | of social cohesion | tree rules |
| 3 | **continue** | infinitive | migrants in France |  |  |  |  | elsewhere *property* | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **send** | to-infinitive | migrants in France *not said here* | money |  |  |  | home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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