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title: Nukufetau, Vaitupu and Nanumea are the only islands with sustainable… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: Nukufetau, Vaitupu and Nanumea are the only islands with sustainable groundwater supplies. Who acts: Nukufetau. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 232

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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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Nukufetau, Vaitupu and Nanumea are the only islands with sustainable groundwater supplies.

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**Who acts:** Nukufetau · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** only islands

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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 (Nukufetau), 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:232
# text = Nukufetau, Vaitupu and Nanumea are the only islands with sustainable groundwater supplies.
1	Nukufetau	Nukufetau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Vaitupu	Vaitupu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Nanumea	Nanumea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	sustainable	sustainable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	groundwater	groundwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nukufetau and Nanumea | the only islands |  |  |  | with sustainable groundwater supplies | tree rules |

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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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