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title: An island nation, Seychelles is located in the Somali Sea segment of… — Seychelles · tree and pragmatics
description: An island nation, Seychelles is located in the Somali Sea segment of the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar and about 1600 km east of Kenya. Who acts: island nation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seychelles» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Seychelles, sentence 132

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From Wikipedia, [«Seychelles»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles), 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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An island nation, Seychelles is located in the Somali Sea segment of the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar and about 1600 km east of Kenya.

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**Who acts:** island nation · **What happens:** locate · **To what, where:** Seychelles, Sea segment, island nation

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Seychelles». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (island nation), 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:Seychelles:132
# text = An island nation, Seychelles is located in the Somali Sea segment of the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar and about 1600 km east of Kenya.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Seychelles	Seychelles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Somali	Somali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	segment	segment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	1600	1600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	compound	_	_
25	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | present · passive | a island nation *not said here* | Seychelles |  | the Sea segment of the Indian Ocean and northeast of Madagascar and km east of Kenya |  |  | 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, «Seychelles», 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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