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title: The country's first daily newspaper, Haveeru Daily News was the firs… — Maldives · tree and pragmatics
description: The country's first daily newspaper, Haveeru Daily News was the first and longest–serving newspaper in the history of the Maldives, which was registered on 28 December 1978, and dissolved in 2016. Who acts: first daily newspaper. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maldives» with its dependency tree and prag
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# Maldives, sentence 470

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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 country's first daily newspaper, Haveeru Daily News was the first and longest–serving newspaper in the history of the Maldives, which was registered on 28 December 1978, and dissolved in 2016.

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**Who acts:** first daily newspaper · **What happens:** be, serve, register, dissolve · **To what, where:** newspaper, history, 28, 2016

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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 (first daily newspaper), 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:470
# text = The country's first daily newspaper, Haveeru Daily News was the first and longest–serving newspaper in the history of the Maldives, which was registered on 28 December 1978, and dissolved in 2016.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Haveeru	Haveeru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	Daily	Daily	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	News	News	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
18	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Maldives	Maldive	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	registered	register	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
31	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:unmarked	_	_
32	1978	1978	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the country's first daily newspaper |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | gerund | the country's first daily newspaper *not said here* | newspaper |  | the history of the Maldives |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent newspaper=Value in history=Location |
| 3 | **register** | past · passive |  | the history of the Maldives |  | 28  December |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **dissolve** | participle |  |  |  | 2016 |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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