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title: Kiribati is one of the least developed countries in the world and it… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: Kiribati is one of the least developed countries in the world and its government is highly dependent on fishing licence fees from foreign fleets and international capital aid to finance infrastructure and other projects. Who acts: Kiribati, government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its d
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# Kiribati, sentence 18

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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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Kiribati is one of the least developed countries in the world and its government is highly dependent on fishing licence fees from foreign fleets and international capital aid to finance infrastructure and other projects.

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**Who acts:** Kiribati, government · **What happens:** be, develop, finance · **To what, where:** one, fishing licence fees, infrastructure

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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, government), 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:18
# text = Kiribati is one of the least developed countries in the world and its government is highly dependent on fishing licence fees from foreign fleets and international capital aid to finance infrastructure and other projects.
1	Kiribati	Kiribati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	least	least	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	dependent	dependent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	licence	licence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	fees	fee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fleets	fleet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	finance	finance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	projects	project	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Kiribati | one |  |  |  | of the developed countries in the world | tree rules |
| 2 | **develop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | least *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | country's government |  |  | fishing licence fees from foreign fleets and international capital aid |  | dependent, highly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **finance** | to-infinitive | country's government *not said here* | infrastructure and other projects |  |  |  |  | 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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