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title: At St Joseph Atoll, Banc de Sable and Pelican Island have also erode… — Seychelles · tree and pragmatics
description: At St Joseph Atoll, Banc de Sable and Pelican Island have also eroded, while Grand Carcassaye and Petit Carcassaye have merged to form one island. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seychelles» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Seychelles, sentence 152

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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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At St Joseph Atoll, Banc de Sable and Pelican Island have also eroded, while Grand Carcassaye and Petit Carcassaye have merged to form one island.

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**What happens:** erode, merge, form · **To what, where:** St Joseph, Grand, one island

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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: 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:152
# text = At St Joseph Atoll, Banc de Sable and Pelican Island have also eroded, while Grand Carcassaye and Petit Carcassaye have merged to form one island.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	Atoll	Atoll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Banc	Banc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
7	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Sable	Sable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Pelican	Pelican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	eroded	erode	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	Grand	Grand	PROPN	NNP	_	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	Carcassaye	Carcassaye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Petit	Petit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	Carcassaye	Carcassaye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	merged	merge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **erode** | present · perfect |  |  |  | St Joseph |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **merge** | present · perfect · passive |  | Grand and Petit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** | to-infinitive |  | one island |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location island=Theme |

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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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