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title: The Gilbert Islands contain about 83 indigenous and 306 introduced p… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: The Gilbert Islands contain about 83 indigenous and 306 introduced plants, whereas the corresponding numbers for Line and Phoenix Islands are 67 and 283. Who acts: Gilbert Islands, corresponding numbers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kiribati, sentence 284

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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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The Gilbert Islands contain about 83 indigenous and 306 introduced plants, whereas the corresponding numbers for Line and Phoenix Islands are 67 and 283.

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**Who acts:** Gilbert Islands, corresponding numbers · **What happens:** contain, introduce, correspond, be · **To what, where:** 83 indigenous 306 introduced plants, 67

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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 (Gilbert Islands, corresponding numbers), 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:284
# text = The Gilbert Islands contain about 83 indigenous and 306 introduced plants, whereas the corresponding numbers for Line and Phoenix Islands are 67 and 283.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Gilbert	Gilbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	83	83	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
7	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	306	306	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	67	67	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	283	283	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | the Gilbert Islands | 83 indigenous 306 introduced plants |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot plant=Theme |
| 2 | **introduce** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **correspond** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the corresponding numbers for Line and Phoenix Islands | 67 |  |  |  | 283 *conj* | 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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