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title: These four states are each represented by a white star on the nation… — Federated States of Micronesia · tree and pragmatics
description: These four states are each represented by a white star on the national flag. Who acts: white star. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Federated States of Micronesia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Federated States of Micronesia, sentence 69

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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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These four states are each represented by a white star on the national flag.

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**Who acts:** white star · **What happens:** represent · **To what, where:** four states

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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 (white star), 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:69
# text = These four states are each represented by a white star on the national flag.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | present · passive | a white star on the national flag | this four states |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=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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