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title: In 1892, Captain Edward Davis of reported on trading activities and… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1892, Captain Edward Davis of reported on trading activities and traders on each of the islands visited. Who acts: Edward Davis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tuvalu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tuvalu, sentence 67

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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 1892, Captain Edward Davis of reported on trading activities and traders on each of the islands visited.

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**Who acts:** Edward Davis · **What happens:** report, visit · **To what, where:** trading activities, 1892

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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 (Edward Davis), 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:67
# text = In 1892, Captain Edward Davis of reported on trading activities and traders on each of the islands visited.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1892	1892	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Edward	Edward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Davis	Davis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	advmod	_	_
8	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	trading	trading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | participle |  |  |  | trading activities and traders on each of the islands |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **visit** | past | Edward Davis |  |  | 1892 |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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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