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title: In June 2009, Palau announced that it would accept up to seventeen U… — Palau · tree and pragmatics
description: In June 2009, Palau announced that it would accept up to seventeen Uyghurs who had previously been detained by the American military at Guantanamo Bay, with some American compensation for the cost of their upkeep. Who acts: Palau, west, American military. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Palau» with its d
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# Palau, sentence 106

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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 June 2009, Palau announced that it would accept up to seventeen Uyghurs who had previously been detained by the American military at Guantanamo Bay, with some American compensation for the cost of their upkeep.

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**Who acts:** Palau, west, American military · **What happens:** announce, accept up, detain, cost · **To what, where:** seventeen Uyghurs, upkeep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, west, American military), 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:106
# text = In June 2009, Palau announced that it would accept up to seventeen Uyghurs who had previously been detained by the American military at Guantanamo Bay, with some American compensation for the cost of their upkeep.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Palau	Palau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	Uyghurs	uyghur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	detained	detain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Guantanamo	Guantanamo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
30	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	compensation	compensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	upkeep	upkeep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Palau |  |  |  | june |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **accept up** | would | west |  |  |  |  | to seventeen Uyghurs; with some American compensation for the cost of Uyghurs's upkeep | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to uyghur=be' |
| 3 | **detain** | past · perfect · passive | the American military at Guantanamo Bay | seventeen Uyghurs |  |  |  | previously *property* | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **cost** |  |  | Uyghurs's upkeep |  |  |  |  | nom cost «possession 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, «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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