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title: Acclimatising to higher ground: The realities of life of a Pacific a… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: Acclimatising to higher ground: The realities of life of a Pacific atoll people". A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kiribati, sentence 453

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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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Acclimatising to higher ground: The realities of life of a Pacific atoll people".

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**What happens:** acclimatis · **To what, where:** realities

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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: 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:453
# text = Acclimatising to higher ground: The realities of life of a Pacific atoll people".
1	Acclimatising	acclimatis	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	realities	reality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	atoll	atoll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acclimatis** | gerund |  | the realities of life of atoll people |  |  |  | to higher ground | tree rules |

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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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