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title: The Maldives' interest relates to its identity as a small island sta… — Maldives · tree and pragmatics
description: The Maldives' interest relates to its identity as a small island state, especially economic development and environmental preservation, and its desire for closer relations with France, a main actor in the IOC region. Who acts: interest, Maldives, commission. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maldives» with
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# Maldives, sentence 310

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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 Maldives' interest relates to its identity as a small island state, especially economic development and environmental preservation, and its desire for closer relations with France, a main actor in the IOC region.

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**Who acts:** interest, Maldives, commission · **What happens:** relate, interest, desire

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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 (interest, Maldives, commission), 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:310
# text = The Maldives' interest relates to its identity as a small island state, especially economic development and environmental preservation, and its desire for closer relations with France, a main actor in the IOC region.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Maldives	Maldive	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	relates	relate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	environmental	environmental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	preservation	preservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	actor	actor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	IOC	IOC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **relate** | present | the Maldives's interest |  |  |  |  | to commission's identity; as a small island state  economic development and environmental preservation; commission's desire for closer relations with France and a main actor in the IOC region *parataxis* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to identity=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **interest** |  | the Maldives |  |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **desire** |  | commission |  |  |  |  | for closer relations with France | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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