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title: From 1973 until 2008, almost 500 US Peace Corps volunteers were base… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: From 1973 until 2008, almost 500 US Peace Corps volunteers were based on the Islands, as many as 45 in a given year. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kiribati, sentence 192

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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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From 1973 until 2008, almost 500 US Peace Corps volunteers were based on the Islands, as many as 45 in a given year.

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**What happens:** base, give · **To what, where:** 500 Corps volunteers, 1973

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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:192
# text = From 1973 until 2008, almost 500 US Peace Corps volunteers were based on the Islands, as many as 45 in a given year.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1973	1973	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
3	until	until	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
8	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Peace	Peace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Corps	Corps	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | past · passive |  | 500 Corps volunteers |  | 1973 until 2008 |  | on the Islands; many as 45 in a given year *obl* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on island=Source |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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