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title: Starch-based carbohydrate sources were not plentiful due to the host… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: Starch-based carbohydrate sources were not plentiful due to the hostile climate of the atolls, with only the northernmost atolls being viable for constant agriculture. Who acts: based carbohydrate sources, northernmost atolls, atolls. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and
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# Kiribati, sentence 430

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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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Starch-based carbohydrate sources were not plentiful due to the hostile climate of the atolls, with only the northernmost atolls being viable for constant agriculture.

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**Who acts:** based carbohydrate sources, northernmost atolls, atolls · **What happens:** base, not be, be, acclimate

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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 (based carbohydrate sources, northernmost atolls, atolls), 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:430
# text = Starch-based carbohydrate sources were not plentiful due to the hostile climate of the atolls, with only the northernmost atolls being viable for constant agriculture.
1	Starch	starch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	carbohydrate	carbohydrate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hostile	hostile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	atolls	atoll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	northernmost	northernmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	atolls	atoll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
24	viable	viable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Starch *compound* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | based carbohydrate sources |  |  |  |  | due the hostile climate of the atolls; plentiful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | the northernmost atolls |  |  |  |  | for constant agriculture; viable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **acclimate** |  | the atolls |  |  |  |  |  | nom climate «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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