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title: Economic growth slowed after 2002, with GDP growth of 1.5% in 2008. — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: Economic growth slowed after 2002, with GDP growth of 1.5% in 2008. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 470

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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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Economic growth slowed after 2002, with GDP growth of 1.5% in 2008.

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**What happens:** slow · **To what, where:** Economic growth

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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:470
# text = Economic growth slowed after 2002, with GDP growth of 1.5% in 2008.
1	Economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	slowed	slow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2002	2002	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	GDP	gdp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	1.5	1.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow** | participle |  | Economic growth *not said here* |  |  | after 2002 | with GDP growth | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with growth=Instrument |

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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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