--- title: In May 2023 the Government of Tuvalu signed a Memorandum of Understa… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics description: In May 2023 the Government of Tuvalu signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sea Shepherd Global, which is based in the Netherlands, to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Tuvalu's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Who acts: Government. 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In May 2023 the Government of Tuvalu signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sea Shepherd Global, which is based in the Netherlands, to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Tuvalu's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). **Who acts:** Government · **What happens:** sign, base, combat, unreport · **To what, where:** Memorandum, Netherlands 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 (Government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:314 # text = In May 2023 the Government of Tuvalu signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sea Shepherd Global, which is based in the Netherlands, to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Tuvalu's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 2023 2023 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Tuvalu Tuvalu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 signed sign VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Memorandum Memorandum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Understanding Understanding PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 MoU MoU PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Shepherd Shepherd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Global Global ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Netherlands Netherlands PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 combat combat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 30 illegal illegal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 unreported unreport VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 unregulated unregulated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 IUU IUU PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 39 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 41 Tuvalu Tuvalu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 42 's 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 Exclusive Exclusive PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 Economic Economic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 Zone Zone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 46 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 EEZ EEZ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sign** | past | the Government of Tuvalu | | a Memorandum of Understanding | | may | with Shepherd Global | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent memorandum=Destination with global=Theme | | 2 | **base** | present · passive | | a Memorandum of Understanding | | the Netherlands | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **combat** | to-infinitive | the Government of Tuvalu *not said here* | | | | | illegal *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **unreport** | participle | the Government of Tuvalu *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 313](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tuvalu/313/) - next →: [sentence 315](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tuvalu/315/) - ↑ back to [Tuvalu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tuvalu/)