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title: Tuvalu has adopted a national plan of action as the observable trans… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: Tuvalu has adopted a national plan of action as the observable transformations over the last ten to fifteen years show Tuvaluans that there have been changes to the sea levels. Who acts: observable transformations, Tuvaluans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Tuvalu, sentence 186

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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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Tuvalu has adopted a national plan of action as the observable transformations over the last ten to fifteen years show Tuvaluans that there have been changes to the sea levels.

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**Who acts:** observable transformations, Tuvaluans · **What happens:** adopt, show, be, plan · **To what, where:** Tuvalu, Tuvaluans, changes, action

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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: who acts (observable transformations, Tuvaluans), 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:186
# text = Tuvalu has adopted a national plan of action as the observable transformations over the last ten to fifteen years show Tuvaluans that there have been changes to the sea levels.
1	Tuvalu	Tuvalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	observable	observable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	transformations	transformation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
20	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
21	Tuvaluans	Tuvaluan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
26	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	levels	level	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adopt** | present · perfect · passive |  | Tuvalu |  |  |  | a national plan of action *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme plan=Attribute |
| 2 | **show** | present | the observable transformations over the last ten years |  | Tuvaluans |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tuvaluan=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | participle | Tuvaluans | changes |  |  |  | to the sea levels | tree rules |
| 4 | **plan** |  |  | action |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=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, «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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