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title: In 1998, sea-temperature warming of as much as 5 C-change due to a s… — Maldives · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1998, sea-temperature warming of as much as 5 C-change due to a single El Niño phenomenon event caused coral bleaching and killed two-thirds of the nation's coral reefs. Who acts: phenomenon event. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maldives» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maldives, sentence 242

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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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In 1998, sea-temperature warming of as much as 5 C-change due to a single El Niño phenomenon event caused coral bleaching and killed two-thirds of the nation's coral reefs.

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**Who acts:** phenomenon event · **What happens:** cause, kill · **To what, where:** coral bleaching, two thirds, 1998

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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 (phenomenon event), 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:242
# text = In 1998, sea-temperature warming of as much as 5 C-change due to a single El Niño phenomenon event caused coral bleaching and killed two-thirds of the nation's coral reefs.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	warming	warming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
21	Niño	Niño	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	phenomenon	phenomenon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bleaching	bleaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	thirds	third	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | phenomenon event | coral bleaching |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bleaching=Patient |
| 2 | **kill** | past | phenomenon event *not said here* | two thirds of the nation's coral reefs |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Theme |

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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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