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title: Outrigger canoes from Nui were constructed with an indirect type of… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: Outrigger canoes from Nui were constructed with an indirect type of outrigger attachment and the hull is double-ended, with no distinct bow and stern. Who acts: hull. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 440

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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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Outrigger canoes from Nui were constructed with an indirect type of outrigger attachment and the hull is double-ended, with no distinct bow and stern.

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**Who acts:** hull · **What happens:** construct, be, type · **To what, where:** Outrigger canoes, outrigger attachment

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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 (hull), 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:440
# text = Outrigger canoes from Nui were constructed with an indirect type of outrigger attachment and the hull is double-ended, with no distinct bow and stern.
1	Outrigger	outrigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Nui	Nui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	indirect	indirect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	outrigger	outrigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	attachment	attachment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hull	hull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	ended	ended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
24	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	stern	stern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **construct** | past · passive |  | Outrigger canoes from Nui |  |  |  | with a indirect type of outrigger attachment; no distinct bow and stern *parataxis* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with type=Instrument |
| 2 | **is** | present | the hull |  |  |  |  | ended *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **type** |  |  | outrigger attachment |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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