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title: Water resources are extremely limited, with the island supplying eno… — Nauru · tree and pragmatics
description: Water resources are extremely limited, with the island supplying enough for 32 l of freshwater per person per day despite the WHO's recommendation of 50 l per person per day. Who acts: island, WHO. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nauru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nauru, sentence 279

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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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Water resources are extremely limited, with the island supplying enough for 32 l of freshwater per person per day despite the WHO's recommendation of 50 l per person per day.

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**Who acts:** island, WHO · **What happens:** supply, recommend · **To what, where:** 50 l

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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 (island, WHO), 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:279
# text = Water resources are extremely limited, with the island supplying enough for 32 l of freshwater per person per day despite the WHO's recommendation of 50 l per person per day.
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	supplying	supply	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	l	l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	freshwater	freshwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	per	per	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	per	per	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	WHO	WHO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	recommendation	recommendation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	l	l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	per	per	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	per	per	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supply** | gerund | the island *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for 32 l of freshwater per person per day; despite the WHO's recommendation of 50 l per person per day; enough *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for l=Recipient |
| 3 | **recommend** |  | the WHO | 50 l per person per day |  |  |  |  | nom recommendation «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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