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title: Most of these islands are in the dry belt of the equatorial oceanic… — Tarawa · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of these islands are in the dry belt of the equatorial oceanic climatic zone and experience prolonged droughts. Who acts: Most, climatic zone. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tarawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tarawa, sentence 19

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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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Most of these islands are in the dry belt of the equatorial oceanic climatic zone and experience prolonged droughts.

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**Who acts:** Most, climatic zone · **What happens:** be, prolong · **To what, where:** dry belt, droughts

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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 (Most, climatic zone), 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:19
# text = Most of these islands are in the dry belt of the equatorial oceanic climatic zone and experience prolonged droughts.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	equatorial	equatorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	oceanic	oceanic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	climatic	climatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	prolonged	prolong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
19	droughts	drought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Most of this islands |  |  | the dry belt |  | of the equatorial oceanic | tree rules |
| 2 | **prolong** | past | climatic zone and experience | droughts |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent drought=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, «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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