--- title: It is understood that the Indian Coast Guard escorted the tugboat to… — Maldives · tree and pragmatics description: It is understood that the Indian Coast Guard escorted the tugboat to the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) and he was then "transferred" to a Maldivian Coast Guard ship, where officials took him into custody. Who acts: Indian Coast Guard, Guard, officials. 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It is understood that the Indian Coast Guard escorted the tugboat to the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) and he was then "transferred" to a Maldivian Coast Guard ship, where officials took him into custody. **Who acts:** Indian Coast Guard, Guard, officials · **What happens:** understand, escort, be, take · **To what, where:** asylum, tugboat, International Boundary Line, Guard, custody 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 (Indian Coast Guard, Guard, officials), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:182 # text = It is understood that the Indian Coast Guard escorted the tugboat to the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) and he was then "transferred" to a Maldivian Coast Guard ship, where officials took him into custody. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 understood understand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 Coast Coast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Guard Guard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 escorted escort VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 tugboat tugboat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 International International PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 15 Maritime Maritime PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Boundary Boundary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Line Line PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 IMBL IMBL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 transferred transfer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 Maldivian Maldivian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Coast Coast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Guard Guard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 37 advmod _ _ 36 officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 custody custody NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **understand** | present · passive | | asylum | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **escort** | past | the Indian Coast Guard | the tugboat | the International Boundary Line | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tugboat=Theme to line=Destination | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Guard | | | | then | to a Guard ship; transfer *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | past | officials | Guard | | custody | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into custody=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 181](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Maldives/181/) - next →: [sentence 183](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Maldives/183/) - ↑ back to [Maldives](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Maldives/)