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title: In recent years, New Zealand and Australia have been the primary des… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: In recent years, New Zealand and Australia have been the primary destinations for migration or seasonal work. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 338

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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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In recent years, New Zealand and Australia have been the primary destinations for migration or seasonal work.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** primary destinations

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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:338
# text = In recent years, New Zealand and Australia have been the primary destinations for migration or seasonal work.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	destinations	destination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	seasonal	seasonal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect |  | the primary destinations |  |  | year | for migration or seasonal work | 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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