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title: In 2001, the MV Tampa, a Norwegian ship that had rescued 438 refugee… — Nauru · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2001, the MV Tampa, a Norwegian ship that had rescued 438 refugees from a stranded boat, was seeking to dock in Australia. Who acts: MV Tampa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nauru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nauru, sentence 160

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From Wikipedia, [«Nauru»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru), 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 2001, the MV Tampa, a Norwegian ship that had rescued 438 refugees from a stranded boat, was seeking to dock in Australia.

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**Who acts:** MV Tampa · **What happens:** rescue, strand, seek, dock · **To what, where:** Norwegian ship, 2001, Australia

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nauru». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MV Tampa), 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:Nauru:160
# text = In 2001, the MV Tampa, a Norwegian ship that had rescued 438 refugees from a stranded boat, was seeking to dock in Australia.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	MV	MV	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Tampa	Tampa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	rescued	rescue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	438	438	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	stranded	strand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	dock	dock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rescue** | past · perfect · passive |  | a Norwegian ship |  |  |  | 438 refugees *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **strand** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** | past · progressive | the MV Tampa |  |  | 2001 |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dock** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the MV Tampa *not said here* |  |  | Australia |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in australia=Destination |

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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, «Nauru», 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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