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title: In 1909, the first resident magistrate was appointed to Funafuti; in… — Funafuti · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1909, the first resident magistrate was appointed to Funafuti; in 1915, Funafuti, along with the rest of the Ellice Islands, were incorporated into the Gilbert and Ellice Islands as a crown colony. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Funafuti» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Funafuti, sentence 9

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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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In 1909, the first resident magistrate was appointed to Funafuti; in 1915, Funafuti, along with the rest of the Ellice Islands, were incorporated into the Gilbert and Ellice Islands as a crown colony.

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**What happens:** appoint, incorporate · **To what, where:** first resident magistrate, Funafuti, 1909, Gilbert Islands

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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: 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:9
# text = In 1909, the first resident magistrate was appointed to Funafuti; in 1915, Funafuti, along with the rest of the Ellice Islands, were incorporated into the Gilbert and Ellice Islands as a crown colony.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1909	1909	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
6	resident	resident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	magistrate	magistrate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Funafuti	Funafuti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1915	1915	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Funafuti	Funafuti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	along	along	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Ellice	Ellice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	Gilbert	Gilbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	Ellice	Ellice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | past · passive |  | the first resident magistrate | Funafuti | 1909 |  | in 1915; along the rest of the Ellice Islands; Funafuti *obl* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme to funafuti=Attribute |
| 2 | **incorporate** | past · passive |  |  |  | the Gilbert Islands |  | as a crown colony | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |

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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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