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title: Kiribati Islands Football Federation (KIFF) is an associate member o… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: Kiribati Islands Football Federation (KIFF) is an associate member of the Oceania Football Confederation, but not of world-governing body FIFA. Who acts: Islands Football Federation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kiribati, sentence 440

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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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Kiribati Islands Football Federation (KIFF) is an associate member of the Oceania Football Confederation, but not of world-governing body FIFA.

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**Who acts:** Islands Football Federation · **What happens:** be, not govern · **To what, where:** associate member, body

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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 (Islands Football Federation), 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:440
# text = Kiribati Islands Football Federation (KIFF) is an associate member of the Oceania Football Confederation, but not of world-governing body FIFA.
1	Kiribati	Kiribati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
3	Football	Football	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Federation	Federation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	KIFF	KIFF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	associate	associate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Oceania	Oceania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Football	Football	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Confederation	confederation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	governing	govern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
24	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	FIFA	FIFA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Islands Football Federation | a associate member |  |  |  | of the Football Confederation | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **govern** | gerund | Islands Football Federation *not said here* | body |  |  |  | world *compound* | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Theme |

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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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