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title: Matrilineal practices are seen in nearly every aspect of Palauan tra… — Palau · tree and pragmatics
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# Palau, sentence 226

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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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Matrilineal practices are seen in nearly every aspect of Palauan traditions, especially in funerals, marriages, inheritance, and the passing of traditional titles.

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**What happens:** see, pass · **To what, where:** Matrilineal practices, aspect, traditional titles

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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: 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:226
# text = Matrilineal practices are seen in nearly every aspect of Palauan traditions, especially in funerals, marriages, inheritance, and the passing of traditional titles.
1	Matrilineal	Matrilineal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	practices	practice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Palauan	Palauan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	funerals	funeral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	marriages	marriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	titles	title	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · passive |  | Matrilineal practices |  | every aspect of Palauan traditions and funerals and marriages and inheritance |  | the passing of traditional titles *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pass** |  |  | traditional titles |  |  |  |  | nom passing «act 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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