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title: A Pattern of Islands". — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: A Pattern of Islands". Who acts: Islands. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kiribati, sentence 460

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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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A Pattern of Islands".

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**Who acts:** Islands · **What happens:** pattern · **To what, where:** Pattern

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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), 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:460
# text = A Pattern of Islands".
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **pattern** |  | Islands |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition 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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