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title: He named it Matthew Island, after the owner of his ship Charlotte. — Tarawa · tree and pragmatics
description: He named it Matthew Island, after the owner of his ship Charlotte. Who acts: Thomas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tarawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tarawa, sentence 36

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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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He named it Matthew Island, after the owner of his ship Charlotte.

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**Who acts:** Thomas · **What happens:** name · **To what, where:** sky

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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 (Thomas), 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:36
# text = He named it Matthew Island, after the owner of his ship Charlotte.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	Charlotte	Charlotte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past | Thomas | sky |  |  | after the owner of Thomas's ship | Matthew Island *obl* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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