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title: Until recently, people lived mostly in villages with populations bet… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: Until recently, people lived mostly in villages with populations between 50 and 3,000 on the outer islands. Who acts: people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kiribati, sentence 350

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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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Until recently, people lived mostly in villages with populations between 50 and 3,000 on the outer islands.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** villages

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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 (people), 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:350
# text = Until recently, people lived mostly in villages with populations between 50 and 3,000 on the outer islands.
1	Until	until	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	3,000	3000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | people |  |  | villages |  | with populations; between 50; on the outer islands; mostly, recently *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location |

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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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