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title: Nauru had previously been listed alongside fourteen other countries… — Nauru · tree and pragmatics
description: Nauru had previously been listed alongside fourteen other countries that had failed to show that they could comply with international tax transparency standards and regulations. Who acts: fourteen other countries, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nauru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nauru, sentence 223

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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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Nauru had previously been listed alongside fourteen other countries that had failed to show that they could comply with international tax transparency standards and regulations.

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**Who acts:** fourteen other countries, country · **What happens:** list, fail, show, comply · **To what, where:** Nauru · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fourteen other countries, country), 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:223
# text = Nauru had previously been listed alongside fourteen other countries that had failed to show that they could comply with international tax transparency standards and regulations.
1	Nauru	Nauru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	listed	list	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	comply	comply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	transparency	transparency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	regulations	regulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **list** | past · perfect · passive |  | Nauru |  |  |  | alongside fourteen other countries; previously *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fail** | past · perfect | fourteen other countries |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | fourteen other countries *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **comply** | could | country |  |  |  |  | with international transparency standards and regulations | tree rules |

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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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