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title: Maldivian beaches serve as nesting grounds for the green sea turtle… — Maldives · tree and pragmatics
description: Maldivian beaches serve as nesting grounds for the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), the hawksbill sea turtle, and the leatherback sea turtle. Who acts: Maldivian beaches. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maldives» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maldives, sentence 270

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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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Maldivian beaches serve as nesting grounds for the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), the hawksbill sea turtle, and the leatherback sea turtle.

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**Who acts:** Maldivian beaches · **What happens:** serve, nest · **To what, where:** sea turtle, grounds

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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 (Maldivian beaches), 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:270
# text = Maldivian beaches serve as nesting grounds for the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), the hawksbill sea turtle, and the leatherback sea turtle.
1	Maldivian	maldivian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	serve	serve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	nesting	nest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Chelonia	Chelonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	mydas	myda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	hawksbill	hawksbill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	leatherback	leatherback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | present | Maldivian beaches | the sea turtle |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **nest** | gerund | Maldivian beaches *not said here* | grounds |  |  |  | for the green sea turtle and the hawksbill sea turtle | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grounds=Location |

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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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