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title: The project is to dredge sand from the lagoon to construct a platfor… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: The project is to dredge sand from the lagoon to construct a platform on Funafuti that is 780 m meters long and 100 m meters wide, giving a total area of approximately 7.8 ha. Who acts: project, platform, 100 m. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 198

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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 project is to dredge sand from the lagoon to construct a platform on Funafuti that is 780 m meters long and 100 m meters wide, giving a total area of approximately 7.8 ha.

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**Who acts:** project, platform, 100 m · **What happens:** be, construct, meter, give · **To what, where:** lagoon, platform, Funafuti, total area

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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 (project, platform, 100 m), 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:198
# text = The project is to dredge sand from the lagoon to construct a platform on Funafuti that is 780 m meters long and 100 m meters wide, giving a total area of approximately 7.8 ha.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	dredge	dredge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	construct	construct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Funafuti	Funafuti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	780	780	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	m	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	meters	meter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	m	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	meters	meter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	7.8	7.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	_
35	ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the project |  |  | the lagoon |  | sand *obj*; dredge *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **construct** | to-infinitive | the project *not said here* | a platform |  | Funafuti |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent platform=Result |
| 3 | **is** | present | a platform |  |  |  |  | 780 m meters *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **meter** | present | 100 m |  |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **give** | gerund | 100 m *not said here* | a total area of 7.8 |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=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, «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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