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title: This box is constructed to give a hollow and reverberating tone when… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: This box is constructed to give a hollow and reverberating tone when struck simultaneously by a chorus of men sitting around it. Who acts: men. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kiribati, sentence 420

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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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This box is constructed to give a hollow and reverberating tone when struck simultaneously by a chorus of men sitting around it.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** construct, give, reverberate, strike, sit, chorus · **To what, where:** box, hollow tone, men

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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 (men), 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:420
# text = This box is constructed to give a hollow and reverberating tone when struck simultaneously by a chorus of men sitting around it.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	reverberating	reverberate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
13	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
14	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **construct** | present · passive |  | this box |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | a hollow tone |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Theme |
| 3 | **reverberate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **strike** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a chorus of men; simultaneously *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chorus=Location |
| 5 | **sit** | gerund | men *not said here* |  |  | box |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=Location |
| 6 | **chorus** |  |  | men |  |  |  |  | nom chorus «event 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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