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title: The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically… — Maldives · tree and pragmatics
description: The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an archipelagic country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean, near the southeastern boundary of the Arabian Sea. Who acts: Maldives. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maldives» with its dependency tre
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# Maldives, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Maldives»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives), 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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The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an archipelagic country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean, near the southeastern boundary of the Arabian Sea.

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**Who acts:** Maldives · **What happens:** know, be, locate · **To what, where:** Maldives, archipelagic country, South Asia, Indian Ocean

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Maldives». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maldives), 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:Maldives:1
# text = The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an archipelagic country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean, near the southeastern boundary of the Arabian Sea.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Maldives	Maldive	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Maldives	Maldive	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	historically	historically	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Maldive	Maldive	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	archipelagic	archipelagic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	near	near	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	southeastern	southeastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	boundary	boundary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Arabian	Arabian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | Maldives *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Maldive Islands; historically *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as island=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Maldives | a archipelagic country |  | South Asia |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **locate** | participle | the Maldives *not said here* |  |  | the Indian Ocean |  | near the southeastern boundary of the Arabian Sea | 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, «Maldives», 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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