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title: Air Tuvalu was a proposed national airline, expected to commence ope… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: Air Tuvalu was a proposed national airline, expected to commence operations in October 2023, but this did not happen. Who acts: Air Tuvalu, proposed national airline, this. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 565

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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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Air Tuvalu was a proposed national airline, expected to commence operations in October 2023, but this did not happen.

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**Who acts:** Air Tuvalu, proposed national airline, this · **What happens:** propose, be, expect, commence, not happen · **To what, where:** proposed national airline, operations

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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 (Air Tuvalu, proposed national airline, this), 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:565
# text = Air Tuvalu was a proposed national airline, expected to commence operations in October 2023, but this did not happen.
1	Air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Tuvalu	Tuvalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	airline	airline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	commence	commence	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Air Tuvalu | a proposed national airline |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **expect** | participle |  | a proposed national airline *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **commence** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a proposed national airline *not said here* | operations |  |  | october |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **happen** | past · do-support | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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