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title: The Nauru Island Agreement provided for the first administrator to b… — Nauru · tree and pragmatics
description: The Nauru Island Agreement provided for the first administrator to be appointed by Australia for five years, leaving subsequent appointments to be decided by the three governments. Who acts: Island Agreement, Australia, three governments. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nauru» with its dependency tree an
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# Nauru, sentence 62

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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 Nauru Island Agreement provided for the first administrator to be appointed by Australia for five years, leaving subsequent appointments to be decided by the three governments.

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**Who acts:** Island Agreement, Australia, three governments · **What happens:** provide, appoint, leave, decide · **To what, where:** subsequent appointments

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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 Agreement, Australia, three governments), 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:62
# text = The Nauru Island Agreement provided for the first administrator to be appointed by Australia for five years, leaving subsequent appointments to be decided by the three governments.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Nauru	Nauru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Agreement	Agreement	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	administrator	administrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
20	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	appointments	appointment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past | the Island Agreement |  |  |  |  | for the first administrator | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for administrator=Recipient |
| 2 | **appoint** | to-infinitive · passive | Australia |  |  |  | year |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | Australia *not said here* | subsequent appointments |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appointment=Theme |
| 4 | **decide** | to-infinitive · passive | the three governments |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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