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title: After the attack on Pearl Harbor, during World War II, Butaritari an… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: After the attack on Pearl Harbor, during World War II, Butaritari and Tarawa, and others of the Northern Gilbert group, were occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1943. Who acts: others. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kiribati, sentence 88

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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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After the attack on Pearl Harbor, during World War II, Butaritari and Tarawa, and others of the Northern Gilbert group, were occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1943.

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**Who acts:** others · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 1941

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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 (others), 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:88
# text = After the attack on Pearl Harbor, during World War II, Butaritari and Tarawa, and others of the Northern Gilbert group, were occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1943.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Pearl	Pearl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Harbor	Harbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	during	during	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Butaritari	Butaritari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Tarawa	Tarawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Gilbert	Gilbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	1943	1943	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | others of the Northern Gilbert group |  |  | 1941 to 1943 |  | by Japan; occupied *property* | 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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