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title: North Tarawa consists of a string of islets from Buariki in the nort… — Tarawa · tree and pragmatics
description: North Tarawa consists of a string of islets from Buariki in the north to Buota in the south. Who acts: North Tarawa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tarawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tarawa, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Tarawa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarawa), 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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North Tarawa consists of a string of islets from Buariki in the north to Buota in the south.

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**Who acts:** North Tarawa · **What happens:** consist · **To what, where:** north

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tarawa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (North Tarawa), 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:Tarawa:10
# text = North Tarawa consists of a string of islets from Buariki in the north to Buota in the south.
1	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Tarawa	Tarawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	islets	islet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Buariki	Buariki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Buota	Buota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | North Tarawa |  |  | the north to Buota |  | of a string of islets from Buariki; in the south | 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, «Tarawa», 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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