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title: At about 4 p.m. on Saturday the 21st, sea water bubbled through the… — Funafuti · tree and pragmatics
description: At about 4 p.m. on Saturday the 21st, sea water bubbled through the coral on the airfield and rose to a height of about 5 ft. Cyclone Bebe continued to ravage the area through Sunday 22 October. Who acts: ft.. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Funafuti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Funafuti, sentence 51

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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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At about 4 p.m. on Saturday the 21st, sea water bubbled through the coral on the airfield and rose to a height of about 5 ft. Cyclone Bebe continued to ravage the area through Sunday 22 October.

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**Who acts:** ft. · **What happens:** bubble, rise, continue, ravage · **To what, where:** 21st, 4 p.m., height, area

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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 (ft.), 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:51
# text = At about 4 p.m. on Saturday the 21st, sea water bubbled through the coral on the airfield and rose to a height of about 5 ft. Cyclone Bebe continued to ravage the area through Sunday 22 October.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	p.m.	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	21st	21st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	bubbled	bubble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	airfield	airfield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	advcl	_	_
27	ft.	Ft.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	Cyclone	Cyclone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	Bebe	Bebe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	ravage	ravage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	through	through	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	appos	_	_
38	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bubble** | participle · passive |  | the 21st and sea water |  | 4 p.m. on Saturday |  | through the coral; on the airfield | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **rise** | past |  |  |  | a height |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to height=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **continue** | past | ft. | a height *not said here* |  |  |  | 5 *advcl* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ravage** | to-infinitive | ft. *not said here* | the area |  |  | sunday |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient |

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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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