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title: Tuvalu is a parliamentary democracy and Commonwealth realm with Char… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: Tuvalu is a parliamentary democracy and Commonwealth realm with Charles III as King of Tuvalu. Who acts: Tuvalu. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 247

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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 a parliamentary democracy and Commonwealth realm with Charles III as King of Tuvalu.

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**Who acts:** Tuvalu · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** parliamentary democracy

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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 (Tuvalu), 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:247
# text = Tuvalu is a parliamentary democracy and Commonwealth realm with Charles III as King of Tuvalu.
1	Tuvalu	tuvalu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	parliamentary	parliamentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Tuvalu	Tuvalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Tuvalu | a parliamentary democracy and Commonwealth realm with Charles as King of Tuvalu |  |  |  | Commonwealth realm with Charles as King of Tuvalu *conj* | 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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