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title: More than 80% of the Maldives' 1,190 coral islands sit less than 1 m… — Maldives · tree and pragmatics
description: More than 80% of the Maldives' 1,190 coral islands sit less than 1 meter above sea level, making it the lowest-lying country in the world, and particularly at risk to sea level rise. Who acts: Maldives. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maldives» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maldives, sentence 212

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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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More than 80% of the Maldives' 1,190 coral islands sit less than 1 meter above sea level, making it the lowest-lying country in the world, and particularly at risk to sea level rise.

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**Who acts:** Maldives · **What happens:** sit, make, lie · **To what, where:** 1 meter, sea level, meter

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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:212
# text = More than 80% of the Maldives' 1,190 coral islands sit less than 1 meter above sea level, making it the lowest-lying country in the world, and particularly at risk to sea level rise.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Maldives	Maldive	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	1,190	1,190	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	_	11	compound	_	_
11	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	15	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	meter	meter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	above	above	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | the Maldives | 1 meter |  | sea level |  | at risk to level rise; 1,190 coral islands *nsubj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent meter=Theme at risk=Location |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the Maldives *not said here* | meter |  |  |  | the lying country in the world *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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