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title: The Tuvalu Media Department of the Government of Tuvalu operates Rad… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tuvalu Media Department of the Government of Tuvalu operates Radio Tuvalu which broadcasts from Funafuti. Who acts: Tuvalu Media Department, Radio. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 566

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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 Media Department of the Government of Tuvalu operates Radio Tuvalu which broadcasts from Funafuti.

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**Who acts:** Tuvalu Media Department, Radio · **What happens:** operate, broadcast · **To what, where:** Radio, Funafuti

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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 Media Department, Radio), 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:566
# text = The Tuvalu Media Department of the Government of Tuvalu operates Radio Tuvalu which broadcasts from Funafuti.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Tuvalu	Tuvalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Media	Media	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Tuvalu	Tuvalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	operates	operate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Radio	Radio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	Tuvalu	Tuvalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	broadcasts	broadcast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Funafuti	Funafuti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **operate** | present | the Tuvalu Media Department of the Government of Tuvalu | Radio |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme radio=Attribute |
| 2 | **broadcast** *speech: other* | present | Radio |  |  | Funafuti |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: 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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