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title: In 1981, Palau voted for the world's first nuclear-free constitution. — Palau · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1981, Palau voted for the world's first nuclear-free constitution. Who acts: Palau, world. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Palau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Palau, sentence 100

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From Wikipedia, [«Palau»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau), 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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In 1981, Palau voted for the world's first nuclear-free constitution.

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**Who acts:** Palau, world · **What happens:** vote, constitute · **To what, where:** 1981

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Palau». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Palau, world), 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:Palau:100
# text = In 1981, Palau voted for the world's first nuclear-free constitution.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1981	1981	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Palau	Palau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
11	nuclear	nuclear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | past | Palau |  |  | 1981 |  | for the world's first free constitution *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for constitution=Goal |
| 2 | **constitute** |  | the world |  |  |  |  |  | nom constitution «communication transitive»: poss=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, «Palau», 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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