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title: The islands are administered by an elected Island Council. — Maldives · tree and pragmatics
description: The islands are administered by an elected Island Council. Who acts: elected Island Council. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maldives» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maldives, sentence 300

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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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The islands are administered by an elected Island Council.

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**Who acts:** elected Island Council · **What happens:** administer, elect · **To what, where:** islands

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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 (elected Island Council), 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:300
# text = The islands are administered by an elected Island Council.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	administered	administer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
8	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **administer** | present · passive | a elected Island Council | the islands |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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