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title: With regard to the judiciary, "the first female Island Court magistr… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: With regard to the judiciary, "the first female Island Court magistrate was appointed to the Island Court in Nanumea in the 1980s and another in Nukulaelae in the early 1990s." A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 270

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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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With regard to the judiciary, "the first female Island Court magistrate was appointed to the Island Court in Nanumea in the 1980s and another in Nukulaelae in the early 1990s."

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**What happens:** appoint · **To what, where:** first female Court magistrate, 1980s

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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: 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:270
# text = With regard to the judiciary, "the first female Island Court magistrate was appointed to the Island Court in Nanumea in the 1980s and another in Nukulaelae in the early 1990s."
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	judiciary	judiciary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
10	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	magistrate	magistrate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Nanumea	Nanumea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Nukulaelae	Nukulaelae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the first female Court magistrate |  | the 1980s |  | with regard to the judiciary; to the Island Court in Nanumea; in the early 1990s | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme to court=Attribute |

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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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