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title: Arguing over Empire: American Interservice and Interdepartmental Riv… — Federated States of Micronesia · tree and pragmatics
description: Arguing over Empire: American Interservice and Interdepartmental Rivalry over Micronesia, 1943-1947". A sentence of Wikipedia's «Federated States of Micronesia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Federated States of Micronesia, sentence 205

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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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Arguing over Empire: American Interservice and Interdepartmental Rivalry over Micronesia, 1943-1947".

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**What happens:** argue · **To what, where:** American Interservice

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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: 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:205
# text = Arguing over Empire: American Interservice and Interdepartmental Rivalry over Micronesia, 1943-1947".
1	Arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Interservice	interservice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Interdepartmental	Interdepartmental	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Rivalry	rivalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Micronesia	Micronesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	1943-1947	1943-1947	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund |  | American Interservice and Interdepartmental Rivalry over Micronesia |  |  |  | over Empire | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over empire=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, «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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