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title: The failure of these missions gave Palau the original Spanish name I… — Palau · tree and pragmatics
description: The failure of these missions gave Palau the original Spanish name Islas Encantadas (Enchanted Islands). Who acts: failure, missions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Palau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Palau, sentence 41

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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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The failure of these missions gave Palau the original Spanish name Islas Encantadas (Enchanted Islands).

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**Who acts:** failure, missions · **What happens:** give, enchant, fail · **To what, where:** original Spanish name, Palau

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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 (failure, missions), 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:41
# text = The failure of these missions gave Palau the original Spanish name Islas Encantadas (Enchanted Islands).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	missions	mission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Palau	Palau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	Islas	Islas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	Encantadas	Encantadas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the failure of this missions | the original Spanish name | Palau |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent palau=Recipient name=Theme |
| 2 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **fail** |  | this missions |  |  |  |  |  | nom failure «act intransitive»: of=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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