--- title: The Tuvalu Vaka subsea cable was connected in 2025, together with th… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics description: The Tuvalu Vaka subsea cable was connected in 2025, together with the introduction of Starlink community gateways, they transform digital connectivity and expand access to essential services by providing continuous access to telecommunication services. Who acts: gateways. 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The Tuvalu Vaka subsea cable was connected in 2025, together with the introduction of Starlink community gateways, they transform digital connectivity and expand access to essential services by providing continuous access to telecommunication services. **Who acts:** gateways · **What happens:** connect, transform, expand, provide, introduce · **To what, where:** Tuvalu subsea cable, 2025, digital connectivity, access, continuous access, telecommunication services 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 (gateways), 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:573 # text = The Tuvalu Vaka subsea cable was connected in 2025, together with the introduction of Starlink community gateways, they transform digital connectivity and expand access to essential services by providing continuous access to telecommunication services. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 Tuvalu Tuvalu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 3 Vaka Vaka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 subsea subsea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 cable cable NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 connected connect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 introduction introduction NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 Starlink Starlink PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 community community NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 gateways gateway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 transform transform VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 22 digital digital ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 connectivity connectivity NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 expand expand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 26 access access NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 essential essential ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 by by SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 providing provide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 32 continuous continuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 access access NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 telecommunication telecommunication NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **connect** | past · passive | | the Tuvalu subsea cable | | 2025 | | with the introduction of Starlink community gateways; together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with introduction=Co-Patient | | 2 | **transform** | present | gateways *= gateway* | digital connectivity | | | | | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connectivity=Patient | | 3 | **expand** | infinitive | gateways *= gateway* *not said here* | access | | | | to essential services | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent access=Patient | | 4 | **provide** | gerund | gateways *= gateway* *not said here* | continuous access | telecommunication services | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent access=Theme to service=Recipient | | 5 | **introduce** | | | Starlink community gateways | | | | | nom introduction «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 572](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tuvalu/572/) - next →: [sentence 574](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tuvalu/574/) - ↑ back to [Tuvalu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tuvalu/)