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title: Of the three northern islands (Nanumanga, Niutao and Nanumea), Nanum… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: Of the three northern islands (Nanumanga, Niutao and Nanumea), Nanumanga suffered the most damage, with from 60 to 100 houses flooded, with the waves also causing damage to the health facility. Who acts: Nanumanga, houses, waves. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Tuvalu, sentence 222

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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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Of the three northern islands (Nanumanga, Niutao and Nanumea), Nanumanga suffered the most damage, with from 60 to 100 houses flooded, with the waves also causing damage to the health facility.

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**Who acts:** Nanumanga, houses, waves · **What happens:** suffer, flood, cause · **To what, where:** most damage, waves, 60, damage

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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 (Nanumanga, houses, waves), 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:222
# text = Of the three northern islands (Nanumanga, Niutao and Nanumea), Nanumanga suffered the most damage, with from 60 to 100 houses flooded, with the waves also causing damage to the health facility.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Nanumanga	Nanumanga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Niutao	Niutao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Nanumea	Nanumea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	Nanumanga	Nanumanga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	flooded	flood	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
31	also	also	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
33	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	facility	facility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past | Nanumanga | the most damage |  |  |  | of the three northern islands | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer damage=Stimulus |
| 2 | **flood** | past | houses | the waves |  | 60 to 100 |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wave=Patient |
| 3 | **cause** | gerund | the waves *not said here* | damage |  |  |  | to the health facility | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition damage=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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