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title: Though residents are trying to salvage the soil that they can, some… — Nauru · tree and pragmatics
description: Though residents are trying to salvage the soil that they can, some researchers speculate that there will be no regeneration of soils even after the mining ceases. Who acts: residents, researchers, regeneration, mining. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nauru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nauru, sentence 272

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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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Though residents are trying to salvage the soil that they can, some researchers speculate that there will be no regeneration of soils even after the mining ceases.

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**Who acts:** residents, researchers, regeneration, mining · **What happens:** try, salvage, speculate, be, cease, regenerate · **To what, where:** soil, soils

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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 (residents, researchers, regeneration, mining), 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:272
# text = Though residents are trying to salvage the soil that they can, some researchers speculate that there will be no regeneration of soils even after the mining ceases.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	salvage	salvage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	researchers	researcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	speculate	speculate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	regeneration	regeneration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	soils	soil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	ceases	cease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | present · progressive | residents |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **salvage** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | residents *not said here* | the soil |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme |
| 3 | **speculate** | present | some researchers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | future | no regeneration of soils |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cease** | present | the mining | soils *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality soil=Eventuality |
| 6 | **regenerate** |  |  | soils |  |  |  |  | nom regeneration «process transitive»: of=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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