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title: On 1 January 1953, the British Western Pacific High Commissioner of… — Kiribati · tree and pragmatics
description: On 1 January 1953, the British Western Pacific High Commissioner of the colony was transferred from Fiji to the new capital of Honiara, to the British Solomon Islands, with the Gilberts' Resident Commissioner still located in Tarawa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kiribati» with its dependency tree and 
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# Kiribati, sentence 95

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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 1 January 1953, the British Western Pacific High Commissioner of the colony was transferred from Fiji to the new capital of Honiara, to the British Solomon Islands, with the Gilberts' Resident Commissioner still located in Tarawa.

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**What happens:** transfer, locate · **To what, where:** British Pacific High Commissioner, 1, Resident Commissioner, Tarawa

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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:95
# text = On 1 January 1953, the British Western Pacific High Commissioner of the colony was transferred from Fiji to the new capital of Honiara, to the British Solomon Islands, with the Gilberts' Resident Commissioner still located in Tarawa.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
3	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	1953	1953	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	Western	Western	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Commissioner	commissioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Fiji	Fiji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Honiara	Honiara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Gilberts	Gilbert	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	Resident	resident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Commissioner	commissioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
38	still	still	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Tarawa	Tarawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transfer** | past · passive |  | the British Pacific High Commissioner of the colony |  | 1 |  | from Fiji; to the new capital of Honiara; to the British Solomon Islands; with the Gilberts's Resident Commissioner | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from fiji=Initial\_Location to capital=Destination |
| 2 | **locate** | participle |  | the Gilberts's Resident Commissioner *not said here* |  | Tarawa | still |  | 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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