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title: On 20 June 2022, left fielder Bligh Madris played his first game for… — Palau · tree and pragmatics
description: On 20 June 2022, left fielder Bligh Madris played his first game for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Chicago Cubs, thus becoming the first person of Palauan descent to play in the MLB. Who acts: Bligh. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Palau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Palau, sentence 238

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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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On 20 June 2022, left fielder Bligh Madris played his first game for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Chicago Cubs, thus becoming the first person of Palauan descent to play in the MLB.

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**Who acts:** Bligh · **What happens:** leave, play, become · **To what, where:** first game, first person, MLB

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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 (Bligh), 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:238
# text = On 20 June 2022, left fielder Bligh Madris played his first game for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Chicago Cubs, thus becoming the first person of Palauan descent to play in the MLB.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fielder	fielder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Bligh	Bligh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Madris	Madris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Pirates	Pirate	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
18	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Cubs	Cub	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Palauan	Palauan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	MLB	MLB	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past |  |  |  |  | june |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | past | Bligh  fielder | Bligh's first game |  |  |  | for the Pittsburgh Pirates; against the Chicago Cubs | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent game=Theme for pirate=Eventuality |
| 3 | **become** | gerund | Bligh  fielder *not said here* | the first person of Palauan descent |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** | to-infinitive | Bligh  fielder *not said here* |  |  | the MLB |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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