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title: The name Gilbert, already in the name of the British protectorate si… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: The name Gilbert, already in the name of the British protectorate since 1892, was incorporated into the name of the entire Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (GEIC) from 1916 and was retained after the Ellice Islands became the separate country of Tuvalu in 1976. Who acts: Ellice Islands. A sentence 
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# Kiribati, sentence 37

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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 name Gilbert, already in the name of the British protectorate since 1892, was incorporated into the name of the entire Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (GEIC) from 1916 and was retained after the Ellice Islands became the separate country of Tuvalu in 1976.

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**Who acts:** Ellice Islands · **What happens:** incorporate, retain, become, name · **To what, where:** name, separate country, 1976, British protectorate, entire Gilbert

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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 (Ellice Islands), 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:37
# text = The name Gilbert, already in the name of the British protectorate since 1892, was incorporated into the name of the entire Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (GEIC) from 1916 and was retained after the Ellice Islands became the separate country of Tuvalu in 1976.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Gilbert	Gilbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	already	already	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	protectorate	protectorate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	since	since	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1892	1892	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Gilbert	Gilbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	Ellice	Ellice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	compound	_	_
28	Colony	Colony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	GEIC	GEIC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	1916	1916	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	retained	retain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
37	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Ellice	Ellice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	xcomp	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Tuvalu	Tuvalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	1976	1976	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incorporate** | past · passive |  | the name and the name of the British protectorate since 1892 |  |  |  | from 1916; into the name of the entire Gilbert and Islands Colony | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient into name=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **retain** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past | the Ellice Islands | the separate country of Tuvalu |  |  |  | in 1976 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1976=Result |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | the British protectorate since 1892 |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | the entire Gilbert and Islands Colony |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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