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title: The islands are grouped into four states, which are Yap, Chuuk (call… — Federated States of Micronesia · tree and pragmatics
description: The islands are grouped into four states, which are Yap, Chuuk (called Truk until January 1990), Pohnpei (known as "Ponape" until November 1984), and Kosrae (formerly Kusaie). Who acts: four states. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Federated States of Micronesia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Federated States of Micronesia, sentence 68

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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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The islands are grouped into four states, which are Yap, Chuuk (called Truk until January 1990), Pohnpei (known as "Ponape" until November 1984), and Kosrae (formerly Kusaie).

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**Who acts:** four states · **What happens:** group, be, call, know · **To what, where:** islands, four states, Yap · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (four states), 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:68
# text = The islands are grouped into four states, which are Yap, Chuuk (called Truk until January 1990), Pohnpei (known as "Ponape" until November 1984), and Kosrae (formerly Kusaie).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	grouped	group	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	Yap	Yap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Chuuk	Chuuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
16	Truk	Truk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
17	until	until	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Pohnpei	Pohnpei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Ponape	Ponape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	until	until	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	1984	1984	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Kosrae	Kosrae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
36	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	Kusaie	Kusaie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **group** | present · passive |  | the islands |  |  |  | into four states *goal*; Kosrae *parataxis* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme into state=Goal |
| 2 | **is a** | present | four states | Yap and Pohnpei |  |  |  | Pohnpei *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | Yap and Pohnpei *not said here* |  |  | january | Truk *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  | november | as Ponape | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as ponape=Attribute |

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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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