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title: The Tuvalu national football team trains at the Tuvalu Sports Ground… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tuvalu national football team trains at the Tuvalu Sports Ground in Funafuti and competes in the Pacific Games. Who acts: Tuvalu, national football team. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 454

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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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The Tuvalu national football team trains at the Tuvalu Sports Ground in Funafuti and competes in the Pacific Games.

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**Who acts:** Tuvalu, national football team · **What happens:** team, train, compete · **To what, where:** Tuvalu Sports Ground, Pacific Games

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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 (Tuvalu, national football team), 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:454
# text = The Tuvalu national football team trains at the Tuvalu Sports Ground in Funafuti and competes in the Pacific Games.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Tuvalu	Tuvalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	trains	train	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Tuvalu	Tuvalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Sports	Sport	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
11	Ground	Ground	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Funafuti	Funafuti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	competes	compete	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Games	Game	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **team** |  | Tuvalu |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **train** | present | the national football team |  |  | the Tuvalu Sports Ground in Funafuti |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **compete** | present | the national football team *not said here* |  |  | the Pacific Games |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «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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