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title: In the last few decades, the island has been considerably expanded i… — Malé · tree and pragmatics
description: In the last few decades, the island has been considerably expanded in size through land reclamation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malé» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malé, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Malé»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malé), 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 the last few decades, the island has been considerably expanded in size through land reclamation.

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**What happens:** expand · **To what, where:** island, size

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Malé:10
# text = In the last few decades, the island has been considerably expanded in size through land reclamation.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	considerably	considerably	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	expanded	expand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	reclamation	reclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expand** | present · perfect · passive |  | the island |  | size | decade | through land reclamation; considerably *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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, «Malé», 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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