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title: Anote Tong of the opposition party Boutokaan Te Koaua was elected to… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: Anote Tong of the opposition party Boutokaan Te Koaua was elected to succeed Tito in July 2003. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kiribati, sentence 118

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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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Anote Tong of the opposition party Boutokaan Te Koaua was elected to succeed Tito in July 2003.

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**What happens:** elect, succeed · **To what, where:** Anote Tong, Tito

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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: 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:118
# text = Anote Tong of the opposition party Boutokaan Te Koaua was elected to succeed Tito in July 2003.
1	Anote	Anote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Tong	Tong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	Boutokaan	Boutokaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	Koaua	Koaua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	Tito	Tito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elect** | past · passive |  | Anote Tong of the opposition party |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **succeed** | to-infinitive |  | Tito |  |  | july |  | tree rules |

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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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