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title: Under the Falekaupule Act, Falekaupule means "traditional assembly i… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the Falekaupule Act, Falekaupule means "traditional assembly in each island ... composed in accordance with the Aganu of each island". Who acts: Falekaupule. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 434

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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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Under the Falekaupule Act, Falekaupule means "traditional assembly in each island ... composed in accordance with the Aganu of each island".

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**Who acts:** Falekaupule · **What happens:** mean, compose · **To what, where:** traditional assembly, Falekaupule Act, accordance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Falekaupule), 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:434
# text = Under the Falekaupule Act, Falekaupule means "traditional assembly in each island ... composed in accordance with the Aganu of each island".
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Falekaupule	Falekaupule	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Falekaupule	Falekaupule	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	accordance	accordance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Aganu	Aganu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Falekaupule | traditional assembly |  | the Falekaupule Act |  | in each island | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot assembly=Theme in island=Attribute |
| 2 | **compose** *in a quote* | participle |  | traditional assembly *not said here* |  | accordance with the Aganu |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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