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title: The buses move between the islands using the Sinamalé Bridge. — Malé · tree and pragmatics
description: The buses move between the islands using the Sinamalé Bridge. Who acts: buses. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malé» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malé, sentence 125

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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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The buses move between the islands using the Sinamalé Bridge.

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**Who acts:** buses · **What happens:** move, use · **To what, where:** islands, Sinamalé Bridge

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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: who acts (buses), 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:125
# text = The buses move between the islands using the Sinamalé Bridge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Sinamalé	Sinamalé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present | the buses |  |  | the islands |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme between island=Trajectory |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | the buses *not said here* | the Sinamalé Bridge |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=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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