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title: Tuvalu is also affected by perigean spring tide events which raise t… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: Tuvalu is also affected by perigean spring tide events which raise the sea level higher than a normal high tide. Who acts: perigean spring tide events. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 228

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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 is also affected by perigean spring tide events which raise the sea level higher than a normal high tide.

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**Who acts:** perigean spring tide events · **What happens:** affect, raise · **To what, where:** Tuvalu, sea level

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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 (perigean spring tide events), 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:228
# text = Tuvalu is also affected by perigean spring tide events which raise the sea level higher than a normal high tide.
1	Tuvalu	tuvalu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	perigean	perigean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	raise	raise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | present · passive | perigean spring tide events | Tuvalu |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **raise** | present | perigean spring tide events | the sea level |  |  |  | high *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent level=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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