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title: Palau's economy consists primarily of tourism, subsistence agricultu… — Palau · tree and pragmatics
description: Palau's economy consists primarily of tourism, subsistence agriculture, and fishing. Who acts: economy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Palau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Palau, sentence 159

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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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Palau's economy consists primarily of tourism, subsistence agriculture, and fishing.

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**Who acts:** economy · **What happens:** consist · **To what, where:** tourism

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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 (economy), 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:159
# text = Palau's economy consists primarily of tourism, subsistence agriculture, and fishing.
1	Palau	Palau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tourism	tourism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	subsistence	subsistence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | Palau's economy | tourism and subsistence agriculture |  |  |  | fishing *obl* | tree rules |

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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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