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title: A 1956 British drama film Pacific Destiny based on the book A Patter… — Tarawa · tree and pragmatics
description: A 1956 British drama film Pacific Destiny based on the book A Pattern of Islands was made in 1956. Who acts: book. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tarawa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tarawa, sentence 86

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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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A 1956 British drama film Pacific Destiny based on the book A Pattern of Islands was made in 1956.

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**Who acts:** book · **What happens:** base, make · **To what, where:** 1956 British drama film, book, Pattern, 1956

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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 (book), 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:86
# text = A 1956 British drama film Pacific Destiny based on the book A Pattern of Islands was made in 1956.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	1956	1956	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Destiny	Destiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Pattern	Pattern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1956	1956	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | participle |  | a 1956 British drama film *not said here* |  | the book |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on book=Source |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive | the book *not said here* | a Pattern of Islands |  | 1956 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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