--- title: In response, the government has initiated several adaptation project… — Funafuti · tree and pragmatics description: In response, the government has initiated several adaptation projects, notably the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP), which aims to protect vulnerable shorelines and reclaim land to mitigate the effects of sea-level rise. Who acts: government, Coastal Adaptation Project. 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In response, the government has initiated several adaptation projects, notably the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP), which aims to protect vulnerable shorelines and reclaim land to mitigate the effects of sea-level rise. **Who acts:** government, Coastal Adaptation Project · **What happens:** initiate, aim, protect, mitigate, effect · **To what, where:** several adaptation projects, response, vulnerable shorelines, effects, level rise 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 (government, Coastal Adaptation Project), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:81 # text = In response, the government has initiated several adaptation projects, notably the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP), which aims to protect vulnerable shorelines and reclaim land to mitigate the effects of sea-level rise. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 response response NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 initiated initiate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 adaptation adaptation NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 projects project NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 notably notably ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 Tuvalu Tuvalu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Coastal Coastal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 Adaptation Adaptation PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Project Project PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 TCAP TCAP PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 aims aim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 vulnerable vulnerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 shorelines shoreline NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 reclaim reclaim NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 mitigate mitigate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 effects effect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 rise rise NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **initiate** | present · perfect | the government | several adaptation projects the Coastal Adaptation Project | | response | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Patient | | 2 | **aim** | present | the Coastal Adaptation Project | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **protect** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Coastal Adaptation Project *not said here* | vulnerable shorelines and reclaim land | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoreline=Beneficiary | | 4 | **mitigate** | to-infinitive | the Coastal Adaptation Project *not said here* | the effects of level rise | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent effect=Patient | | 5 | **effect** | | | level rise | | | | | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Funafuti/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Funafuti/82/) - ↑ back to [Funafuti](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Funafuti/)