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title: In 2002, the Maldives began to express interest in the commission bu… — Maldives · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2002, the Maldives began to express interest in the commission but as of 2008 had not applied for membership. Who acts: Maldives. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maldives» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maldives, sentence 309

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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 2002, the Maldives began to express interest in the commission but as of 2008 had not applied for membership.

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**Who acts:** Maldives · **What happens:** begin, express, not apply · **To what, where:** 2002, interest, commission

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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:309
# text = In 2002, the Maldives began to express interest in the commission but as of 2008 had not applied for membership.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2002	2002	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Maldives	Maldives	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	express	express	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	commission	commission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	membership	membership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the Maldives |  |  | 2002 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **express** | to-infinitive | the Maldives *not said here* | interest |  | the commission |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **apply** | past · perfect | the Maldives *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as 2008; for membership | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for membership=Eventuality |

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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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