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title: On 15 October 1870, Rev. Samuel James Whitmee of the LMS arrived at… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: On 15 October 1870, Rev. Samuel James Whitmee of the LMS arrived at Arorae, and later that month he visited Tamana, Onotoa and Beru. Who acts: Samuel, month. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kiribati, sentence 69

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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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On 15 October 1870, Rev. Samuel James Whitmee of the LMS arrived at Arorae, and later that month he visited Tamana, Onotoa and Beru.

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**Who acts:** Samuel, month · **What happens:** arrive, visit · **To what, where:** 15, Tamana

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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 (Samuel, month), 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:69
# text = On 15 October 1870, Rev. Samuel James Whitmee of the LMS arrived at Arorae, and later that month he visited Tamana, Onotoa and Beru.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1870	1870	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Rev.	Rev.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	Whitmee	Whitmee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	LMS	Lm	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Arorae	Arorae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	Tamana	Tamana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Onotoa	Onotoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Beru	Beru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Samuel  Rev. of the LMS |  |  | 15 |  | at Arorae | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** | past | that month | Tamana and Beru |  |  |  | Samuel *nsubj*; late *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tamana=Co-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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