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title: With support for his administration faltering, Nasir fled to Singapo… — Maldives · tree and pragmatics
description: With support for his administration faltering, Nasir fled to Singapore in 1978, with millions of dollars from the treasury. Who acts: administration, Nasir, decline. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maldives» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maldives, sentence 140

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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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With support for his administration faltering, Nasir fled to Singapore in 1978, with millions of dollars from the treasury.

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**Who acts:** administration, Nasir, decline · **What happens:** falter, flee, administer · **To what, where:** Singapore, 1978

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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 (administration, Nasir, decline), 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:140
# text = With support for his administration faltering, Nasir fled to Singapore in 1978, with millions of dollars from the treasury.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	faltering	falter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	Nasir	Nasir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1978	1978	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **falter** | gerund | decline's administration *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **flee** | past | Nasir |  | Singapore | 1978 |  | with support for decline's administration; with millions of dollars from the treasury | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to singapore=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **administer** |  | decline |  |  |  |  |  | nom administration «act transitive»: poss=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, «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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