--- title: In 2009, President Tong attended the Climate Vulnerable Forum (V11)… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics description: In 2009, President Tong attended the Climate Vulnerable Forum (V11) in the Maldives, with 10 other countries that are vulnerable to climate change, and signed the Bandos Island declaration on 10 November 2009, pledging to show moral leadership and commence greening their economies by voluntarily com --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kiribati/174/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Kiribati](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kiribati/) / 174 # Kiribati, sentence 174 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. In 2009, President Tong attended the Climate Vulnerable Forum (V11) in the Maldives, with 10 other countries that are vulnerable to climate change, and signed the Bandos Island declaration on 10 November 2009, pledging to show moral leadership and commence greening their economies by voluntarily committing to achieving carbon neutrality. **Who acts:** President, 10 other countries · **What happens:** attend, be, sign, pledge, show, commence · **To what, where:** Climate Vulnerable Forum, 2009, Island declaration, 10, moral leadership, economies 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 (President, 10 other countries), 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:Kiribati:174 # text = In 2009, President Tong attended the Climate Vulnerable Forum (V11) in the Maldives, with 10 other countries that are vulnerable to climate change, and signed the Bandos Island declaration on 10 November 2009, pledging to show moral leadership and commence greening their economies by voluntarily committing to achieving carbon neutrality. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2009 2009 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 Tong Tong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 attended attend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 Climate Climate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 Vulnerable Vulnerable PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Forum Forum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 V11 v11 NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Maldives Maldive PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 vulnerable vulnerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 signed sign VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 Bandos Bandos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 declaration declaration NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 obl _ _ 37 November November PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:unmarked _ _ 38 2009 2009 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 pledging pledge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 moral moral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 leadership leadership NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 commence commence VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 47 greening green VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 xcomp _ _ 48 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 economies economy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ _ 50 by by SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 51 voluntarily voluntarily ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 committing commit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 47 advcl _ _ 53 to to SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 54 achieving achieve VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 52 advcl _ _ 55 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 56 neutrality neutrality NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attend** | past | President | | the Climate Vulnerable Forum | 2009 | | in the Maldives; with 10 other countries | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forum=Goal | | 2 | **is** | present | 10 other countries | | | | | to climate change; vulnerable *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **sign** | past | President *not said here* | the Island declaration | | 10 November 2009 | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent declaration=Theme on 10=Destination | | 4 | **pledge** | gerund | President *not said here* | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **show** | to-infinitive | President *not said here* | moral leadership | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leadership=Recipient | | 6 | **commence** | present | President *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **green** | gerund | President *not said here* | Maldives's economies | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **commit** | gerund | President *not said here* | | | | | voluntarily *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **achieve** | gerund | President *not said here* | carbon neutrality | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neutrality=Eventuality | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kiribati/173/) - next →: [sentence 175](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kiribati/175/) - ↑ back to [Kiribati](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kiribati/)