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title: In general this is due to Spanish and German colonial history. — Federated States of Micronesia · tree and pragmatics
description: In general this is due to Spanish and German colonial history. Who acts: this. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Federated States of Micronesia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Federated States of Micronesia, sentence 134

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From Wikipedia, [«Federated States of Micronesia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia), 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 general this is due to Spanish and German colonial history.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** colonial history, general

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Federated States of Micronesia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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:Federated_States_of_Micronesia:134
# text = In general this is due to Spanish and German colonial history.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
5	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this | colonial history |  | general |  |  | 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, «Federated States of Micronesia», 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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