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title: This annexation was ended in 1979, when Kiribati gained its independ… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: This annexation was ended in 1979, when Kiribati gained its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming a sovereign state in 1979. Who acts: Kiribati. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kiribati, sentence 11

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From Wikipedia, [«Kiribati»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati), 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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This annexation was ended in 1979, when Kiribati gained its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming a sovereign state in 1979.

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**Who acts:** Kiribati · **What happens:** end, gain, become · **To what, where:** annexation, 1979, independence, United Kingdom, sovereign state

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kiribati». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kiribati), 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:Kiribati:11
# text = This annexation was ended in 1979, when Kiribati gained its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming a sovereign state in 1979.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	annexation	annexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	ended	end	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1979	1979	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	Kiribati	Kiribati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	16	flat	_	_
16	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1979	1979	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past · passive |  | this annexation |  | 1979 |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **gain** | past | Kiribati | annexation's independence |  | the United Kingdom |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent independence=Theme from kingdom=Source |
| 3 | **become** | gerund | Kiribati *not said here* | a sovereign state |  |  |  | in 1979 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1979=Result |

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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, «Kiribati», 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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