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title: The atoll consists of a narrow sweep of land between 20 and 400 m wi… — Funafuti · tree and pragmatics
description: The atoll consists of a narrow sweep of land between 20 and 400 m wide, encircling a large lagoon (Te Namo) 18 km long and 14 km wide. Who acts: atoll. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Funafuti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Funafuti, sentence 14

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From Wikipedia, [«Funafuti»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funafuti), 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 atoll consists of a narrow sweep of land between 20 and 400 m wide, encircling a large lagoon (Te Namo) 18 km long and 14 km wide.

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**Who acts:** atoll · **What happens:** consist, encircle · **To what, where:** large lagoon

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Funafuti». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (atoll), 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:Funafuti:14
# text = The atoll consists of a narrow sweep of land between 20 and 400 m wide, encircling a large lagoon (Te Namo) 18 km long and 14 km wide.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	atoll	atoll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sweep	sweep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
14	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	encircling	encircle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	Namo	Namo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
25	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | the atoll |  |  |  |  | of a narrow sweep of land | tree rules |
| 2 | **encircle** | gerund | the atoll *not said here* | a large lagoon |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lagoon=Co-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, «Funafuti», 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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