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title: The cyclone knocked down 90% of the island's houses and trees. — Funafuti · tree and pragmatics
description: The cyclone knocked down 90% of the island's houses and trees. Who acts: cyclone. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Funafuti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Funafuti, sentence 55

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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 cyclone knocked down 90% of the island's houses and trees.

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**Who acts:** cyclone · **What happens:** knock down

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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 (cyclone), 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:55
# text = The cyclone knocked down 90% of the island's houses and trees.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock down** | past | the cyclone |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent %=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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