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title: Gilbert and captain John Marshall sighted some of the islands in 178… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: Gilbert and captain John Marshall sighted some of the islands in 1788, while charting the "outer passage" route from Port Jackson to Canton. Who acts: Gilbert. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kiribati, sentence 33

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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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Gilbert and captain John Marshall sighted some of the islands in 1788, while charting the "outer passage" route from Port Jackson to Canton.

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**Who acts:** Gilbert · **What happens:** sight, chart · **To what, where:** islands, 1788, passage route, Canton, Port

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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), 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:33
# text = Gilbert and captain John Marshall sighted some of the islands in 1788, while charting the "outer passage" route from Port Jackson to Canton.
1	Gilbert	gilbert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Marshall	Marshall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	sighted	sight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1788	1788	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	charting	chart	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	Jackson	Jackson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Canton	Canton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sight** | past | Gilbert and captain | some islands |  | 1788 |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus |
| 2 | **chart** | gerund | Gilbert and captain *not said here* | the passage route | Canton | Port |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=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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