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title: Palau has maintained close ties with Japan, which has funded infrast… — Palau · tree and pragmatics
description: Palau has maintained close ties with Japan, which has funded infrastructure projects, including the Koror–Babeldaob Bridge. Who acts: Palau. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Palau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Palau, sentence 98

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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 has maintained close ties with Japan, which has funded infrastructure projects, including the Koror–Babeldaob Bridge.

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**Who acts:** Palau · **What happens:** maintain, fund · **To what, where:** close ties

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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 (Palau), 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:98
# text = Palau has maintained close ties with Japan, which has funded infrastructure projects, including the Koror–Babeldaob Bridge.
1	Palau	Palau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	funded	fund	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
12	infrastructure	infrastructure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	projects	project	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	including	including	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Koror	Koror	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Babeldaob	Babeldaob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
20	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maintain** | present · perfect | Palau | close ties |  |  |  | with Japan | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tie=Theme |
| 2 | **fund** | present · perfect · passive |  | close ties |  |  |  | infrastructure projects *obj* | tree rules |

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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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