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title: Komet then shelled Nauru's phosphate mining areas, oil storage depot… — Nauru · tree and pragmatics
description: Komet then shelled Nauru's phosphate mining areas, oil storage depots, and the shiploading cantilever. Who acts: Komet. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nauru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nauru, sentence 52

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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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Komet then shelled Nauru's phosphate mining areas, oil storage depots, and the shiploading cantilever.

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**Who acts:** Komet · **What happens:** shell · **To what, where:** phosphate mining areas

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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 (Komet), 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:52
# text = Komet then shelled Nauru's phosphate mining areas, oil storage depots, and the shiploading cantilever.
1	Komet	Komet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	shelled	shell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Nauru	Nauru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	phosphate	phosphate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	storage	storage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	depots	depot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	shiploading	shiploading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	cantilever	cantilever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shell** | past | Komet | Nauru's phosphate mining areas and storage depots |  |  | then | the shiploading cantilever *obl* | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Destination |

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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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