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title: Cyclone Bebe submerged Funafuti, eliminating 95% of structures on th… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: Cyclone Bebe submerged Funafuti, eliminating 95% of structures on the island, with 6 people lost in the cyclone. Who acts: Cyclone. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 207

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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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Cyclone Bebe submerged Funafuti, eliminating 95% of structures on the island, with 6 people lost in the cyclone.

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**Who acts:** Cyclone · **What happens:** submerge, eliminate, lose · **To what, where:** Funafuti, island, 6 people, cyclone

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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 (Cyclone), 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:207
# text = Cyclone Bebe submerged Funafuti, eliminating 95% of structures on the island, with 6 people lost in the cyclone.
1	Cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Bebe	Bebe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	submerged	submerge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Funafuti	Funafuti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	eliminating	eliminate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	95	95	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	structures	structure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
18	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **submerge** | past | Cyclone | Funafuti |  |  |  | 6 people *parataxis* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent funafuti=Patient |
| 2 | **eliminate** | gerund | Cyclone *not said here* |  |  | the island |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Patient |
| 3 | **lose** | participle |  | 6 people *not said here* |  | the cyclone |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in cyclone=Eventuality |

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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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