--- title: The 2022 census determined that Tuvalu had a population of 10,643, m… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics description: The 2022 census determined that Tuvalu had a population of 10,643, making it the 194th most populous country and also the 2nd least populated country in the United Nations, exceeding only Niue and the Vatican City in population. Who acts: 2022 census, Tuvalu. 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The 2022 census determined that Tuvalu had a population of 10,643, making it the 194th most populous country and also the 2nd least populated country in the United Nations, exceeding only Niue and the Vatican City in population. **Who acts:** 2022 census, Tuvalu · **What happens:** determine, have, make, populate, exceed · **To what, where:** population, Niue 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 (2022 census, Tuvalu), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:5 # text = The 2022 census determined that Tuvalu had a population of 10,643, making it the 194th most populous country and also the 2nd least populated country in the United Nations, exceeding only Niue and the Vatican City in population. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 census census NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 Tuvalu Tuvalu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 10,643 10,643 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 194th 194th NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 18 advmod _ _ 18 populous populous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 also also ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 2nd 2nd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 26 amod _ _ 24 least least ADV RBS Degree=Sup 25 advmod _ _ 25 populated populate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 United United PROPN NNP _ 30 compound _ _ 30 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 exceeding exceed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 33 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 Niue Niue PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 Vatican Vatican PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | past | the 2022 census | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | Tuvalu | a population of 10,643 | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient | | 3 | **make** | gerund | Tuvalu *not said here* | population | | | | the 194th and populous country and 2nd populated country in the United Nations *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary 194th=Product | | 4 | **populate** | participle | | | | | | least *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **exceed** | gerund | Tuvalu *not said here* | Niue and the Vatican City | | | | in population | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot niue=Theme in population=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tuvalu/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tuvalu/6/) - ↑ back to [Tuvalu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tuvalu/)