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title: Alfred Restieaux, a native of England, lived and worked as a trader… — Funafuti · tree and pragmatics
description: Alfred Restieaux, a native of England, lived and worked as a trader on Funafuti from July 1881 until about 1888 or 1889. Who acts: Alfred. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Funafuti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Funafuti, sentence 31

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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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Alfred Restieaux, a native of England, lived and worked as a trader on Funafuti from July 1881 until about 1888 or 1889.

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**Who acts:** Alfred · **What happens:** live, work

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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 (Alfred), 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:31
# text = Alfred Restieaux, a native of England, lived and worked as a trader on Funafuti from July 1881 until about 1888 or 1889.
1	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	Restieaux	Restieaux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	native	native	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	trader	trader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Funafuti	Funafuti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	1881	1881	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	until	until	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	1888	1888	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	1889	1889	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Alfred |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | past | Alfred *not said here* |  |  |  | until 1888; july | as a trader on Funafuti | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as trader=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, «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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