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title: It comprises North Tarawa, which has 6,629 inhabitants and much in c… — Tarawa · tree and pragmatics
description: It comprises North Tarawa, which has 6,629 inhabitants and much in common with other more remote islands of the Gilbert group, and South Tarawa, which has 56,388 inhabitants as of 2015, half of the country's total population. Who acts: capital, North Tarawa, South Tarawa. A sentence of Wikipedia's «
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# Tarawa, sentence 2

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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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It comprises North Tarawa, which has 6,629 inhabitants and much in common with other more remote islands of the Gilbert group, and South Tarawa, which has 56,388 inhabitants as of 2015, half of the country's total population.

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**Who acts:** capital, North Tarawa, South Tarawa · **What happens:** comprise, have · **To what, where:** North Tarawa, 6,629 inhabitants, 56,388 inhabitants

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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 (capital, North Tarawa, South 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:2
# text = It comprises North Tarawa, which has 6,629 inhabitants and much in common with other more remote islands of the Gilbert group, and South Tarawa, which has 56,388 inhabitants as of 2015, half of the country's total population.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comprises	comprise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Tarawa	Tarawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	6,629	6,629	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Gilbert	Gilbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Tarawa	Tarawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	56,388	56,388	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	34	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	31	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comprise** | present | capital | North Tarawa |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tarawa=Pivot |
| 2 | **have** | present | North Tarawa | 6,629 inhabitants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | South Tarawa | 56,388 inhabitants and half of the country's total population |  |  |  | as 2015; which *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Patient |

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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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