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title: Palau's economy is based mainly on tourism, subsistence agriculture,… — Palau · tree and pragmatics
description: Palau's economy is based mainly on tourism, subsistence agriculture, and fishing, with a significant portion of gross national product (GNP) derived from foreign aid. Who acts: fishing. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Palau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Palau, sentence 17

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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 is based mainly on tourism, subsistence agriculture, and fishing, with a significant portion of gross national product (GNP) derived from foreign aid.

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**Who acts:** fishing · **What happens:** base, derive · **To what, where:** economy, tourism, foreign aid

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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 (fishing), 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:17
# text = Palau's economy is based mainly on tourism, subsistence agriculture, and fishing, with a significant portion of gross national product (GNP) derived from foreign aid.
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	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	tourism	tourism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	subsistence	subsistence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
14	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	product	product	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	GNP	gnp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	derived	derive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | present · passive |  | Palau's economy |  | tourism and subsistence agriculture |  | mainly *property* | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on tourism=Source |
| 2 | **derive** | past | fishing |  |  | foreign aid |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from aid=Material |

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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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