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title: Palau was first drawn on a European map by the Bohemian missionary P… — Palau · tree and pragmatics
description: Palau was first drawn on a European map by the Bohemian missionary Paul Klein based on a description given by a group of Palauans shipwrecked on the Philippine coast on Samar. Who acts: Bohemian missionary. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Palau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Palau, sentence 8

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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 was first drawn on a European map by the Bohemian missionary Paul Klein based on a description given by a group of Palauans shipwrecked on the Philippine coast on Samar.

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**Who acts:** Bohemian missionary · **What happens:** draw, base, give, shipwreck · **To what, where:** Palau, European map, description, Palauans, Philippine coast

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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 (Bohemian missionary), 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:8
# text = Palau was first drawn on a European map by the Bohemian missionary Paul Klein based on a description given by a group of Palauans shipwrecked on the Philippine coast on Samar.
1	Palau	Palau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
4	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Bohemian	bohemian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	Klein	Klein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	case	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
19	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Palauans	palauan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Philippine	philippine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Samar	Samar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · passive | the Bohemian missionary base a description | Palau |  | a European map |  | first *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on map=Destination |
| 2 | **base** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  | a description *not said here* |  |  |  | by a group of Palauans | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **shipwreck** | participle |  | Palauans *not said here* |  | the Philippine coast on Samar |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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