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title: The trust manages long-term investments, which were intended to supp… — Nauru · tree and pragmatics
description: The trust manages long-term investments, which were intended to support the citizens after the phosphate reserves were exhausted. Who acts: trust. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nauru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nauru, sentence 196

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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 trust manages long-term investments, which were intended to support the citizens after the phosphate reserves were exhausted.

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**Who acts:** trust · **What happens:** manage, intend, support, exhaust · **To what, where:** term investments, citizens, phosphate reserves

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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 (trust), 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:196
# text = The trust manages long-term investments, which were intended to support the citizens after the phosphate reserves were exhausted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	manages	manage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	investments	investment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	phosphate	phosphate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	reserves	reserve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | present | the trust | term investments |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent investment=Theme |
| 2 | **intend** | past · passive |  | term investments |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **support** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the citizens |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer citizen=Stimulus |
| 4 | **exhaust** | past · passive |  | the phosphate reserves |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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