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title: In 2020, the government of Tuvalu purchased a landing barge, intende… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2020, the government of Tuvalu purchased a landing barge, intended for transport of dangerous goods and building material from the capital to the outer islands. Who acts: government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 550

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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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In 2020, the government of Tuvalu purchased a landing barge, intended for transport of dangerous goods and building material from the capital to the outer islands.

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**Who acts:** government · **What happens:** purchase, intend · **To what, where:** landing barge, 2020

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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 (government), 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:550
# text = In 2020, the government of Tuvalu purchased a landing barge, intended for transport of dangerous goods and building material from the capital to the outer islands.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Tuvalu	Tuvalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	purchased	purchase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	barge	barge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **purchase** | past | the government of Tuvalu | a landing barge |  | 2020 |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset barge=Theme |
| 2 | **intend** | participle |  | a landing barge *not said here* |  |  |  | for transport of dangerous goods and building material from the capital; to the outer islands | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: 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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