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title: The refugees were eventually taken to Nauru to be held in detention… — Nauru · tree and pragmatics
description: The refugees were eventually taken to Nauru to be held in detention facilities which later became part of the Howard government's Pacific Solution. Who acts: detention facilities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nauru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nauru, sentence 162

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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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The refugees were eventually taken to Nauru to be held in detention facilities which later became part of the Howard government's Pacific Solution.

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**Who acts:** detention facilities · **What happens:** take, hold, become · **To what, where:** refugees, Nauru, detention facilities, part

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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 (detention facilities), 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:162
# text = The refugees were eventually taken to Nauru to be held in detention facilities which later became part of the Howard government's Pacific Solution.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Nauru	Nauru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	detention	detention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	facilities	facility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Howard	Howard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Solution	solution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · passive |  | the refugees | Nauru |  |  | eventually *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to nauru=Destination |
| 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | detention facilities |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: in facility=Location |
| 3 | **become** | past | detention facilities | part of the Howard government's Pacific Solution |  |  |  | late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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, «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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