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title: To complement the rather low consumption of carbohydrates in their d… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: To complement the rather low consumption of carbohydrates in their diets, the I-Kiribati processed the sap and fruit of the abundant pandanus and coconut trees into different beverages and foods such as te karewe (fresh daily sap of the coconut tree) or te tuae (dried pandanus cake) and te kabubu (d
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# Kiribati, sentence 432

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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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To complement the rather low consumption of carbohydrates in their diets, the I-Kiribati processed the sap and fruit of the abundant pandanus and coconut trees into different beverages and foods such as te karewe (fresh daily sap of the coconut tree) or te tuae (dried pandanus cake) and te kabubu (dried pandanus flour) from pandanus fruit pulp and te kamaimai (coconut sap syrup) from coconut sap.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** complement, process, dry, consume · **To what, where:** low consumption, diets, sap, carbohydrates

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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 (I), 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:432
# text = To complement the rather low consumption of carbohydrates in their diets, the I-Kiribati processed the sap and fruit of the abundant pandanus and coconut trees into different beverages and foods such as te karewe (fresh daily sap of the coconut tree) or te tuae (dried pandanus cake) and te kabubu (dried pandanus flour) from pandanus fruit pulp and te kamaimai (coconut sap syrup) from coconut sap.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	complement	complement	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	consumption	consumption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	carbohydrates	carbohydrate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	diets	diet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Kiribati	Kiribati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	processed	process	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sap	SAP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	abundant	abundant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pandanus	pandanus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	coconut	coconut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	beverages	beverage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	37	case	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	te	te	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	karewe	karewe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	sap	SAP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	coconut	coconut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
47	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	te	te	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	tuae	tuae	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
50	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	amod	_	_
52	pandanus	pandanus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	53	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	te	te	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	parataxis	_	_
57	kabubu	kabubu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	56	dep	_	_
58	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	amod	_	_
60	pandanus	pandanus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	61	punct	_	_
63	from	from	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
64	pandanus	pandanus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	compound	_	_
65	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	compound	_	_
66	pulp	pulp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
67	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
68	te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	conj	_	_
69	kamaimai	kamaimai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	68	dep	_	_
70	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	73	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	coconut	coconut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	compound	_	_
72	sap	SAP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	compound	_	_
73	syrup	syrup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	73	punct	_	_
75	from	from	ADP	IN	_	77	case	_	_
76	coconut	coconut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	77	compound	_	_
77	sap	SAP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complement** | to-infinitive |  | the low consumption of carbohydrates |  | carbohydrates's diets |  | into different beverages such te karewe or te tuae and foods | tree rules |
| 2 | **process** | past | I | the sap and fruit of the abundant pandanus and coconut trees |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **consume** |  |  | carbohydrates |  |  |  |  | nom consumption «act 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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