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title: According to the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (previously… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (previously South Pacific Regional Environment Programme), two small uninhabited Kiribati islets, Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea, disappeared underwater in 1999. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kiribati, sentence 237

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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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According to the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (previously South Pacific Regional Environment Programme), two small uninhabited Kiribati islets, Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea, disappeared underwater in 1999.

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**What happens:** accord, disappear · **To what, where:** 1999

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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:237
# text = According to the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (previously South Pacific Regional Environment Programme), two small uninhabited Kiribati islets, Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea, disappeared underwater in 1999.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Environment	environment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Programme	programme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
11	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	Regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Environment	environment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Programme	programme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	uninhabited	uninhabited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Kiribati	Kiribati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	islets	islet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Tebua	Tebua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Tarawa	Tarawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Abanuea	Abanuea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
28	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	underwater	underwater	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **disappear** | past |  |  |  | 1999 |  | accord the Regional Environment Programme  Pacific  South Regional Environment Programme and two small uninhabited Kiribati islets; underwater *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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