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title: The eastern shoreline of Funafuti Lagoon on Fongafale was modified d… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: The eastern shoreline of Funafuti Lagoon on Fongafale was modified during World War II when the airfield (now Funafuti International Airport) was constructed. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 144

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From Wikipedia, [«Tuvalu»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu), 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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The eastern shoreline of Funafuti Lagoon on Fongafale was modified during World War II when the airfield (now Funafuti International Airport) was constructed.

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**What happens:** modify, construct · **To what, where:** eastern shoreline, airfield

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tuvalu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Tuvalu:144
# text = The eastern shoreline of Funafuti Lagoon on Fongafale was modified during World War II when the airfield (now Funafuti International Airport) was constructed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shoreline	shoreline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Funafuti	Funafuti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Lagoon	Lagoon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Fongafale	Fongafale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	modified	modify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	airfield	airfield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	Funafuti	Funafuti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Airport	Airport	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **modify** | past · passive |  | the eastern shoreline of Funafuti on Fongafale |  |  | during World War |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **construct** | past · passive |  | the airfield |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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, «Tuvalu», 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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