--- title: Captain Davis identified the following traders in the Ellice Group:… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics description: Captain Davis identified the following traders in the Ellice Group: Edmund Duffy (Nanumea); Jack Buckland (Niutao); Harry Nitz (Vaitupu); Jack O'Brien (Funafuti); Alfred Restieaux and Emile Fenisot (Nukufetau); and Martin Kleis (Nui). Who acts: Captain. 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Captain Davis identified the following traders in the Ellice Group: Edmund Duffy (Nanumea); Jack Buckland (Niutao); Harry Nitz (Vaitupu); Jack O'Brien (Funafuti); Alfred Restieaux and Emile Fenisot (Nukufetau); and Martin Kleis (Nui). **Who acts:** Captain · **What happens:** identify, follow · **To what, where:** following traders, Ellice Group 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 (Captain), 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:68 # text = Captain Davis identified the following traders in the Ellice Group: Edmund Duffy (Nanumea); Jack Buckland (Niutao); Harry Nitz (Vaitupu); Jack O'Brien (Funafuti); Alfred Restieaux and Emile Fenisot (Nukufetau); and Martin Kleis (Nui). 1 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Davis Davis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 identified identify VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 6 traders trader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Ellice Ellice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Group Group PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Edmund Edmund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Duffy Duffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Nanumea Nanumea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Buckland Buckland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Niutao Niutao PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 Harry Harry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Nitz Nitz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Vaitupu Vaitupu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 O'Brien O'Brien PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Funafuti Funafuti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 Alfred Alfred PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Restieaux Restieaux PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 Emile Emile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 40 Fenisot Fenisot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 flat _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 Nukufetau Nukufetau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ; ; PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 Martin Martin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Kleis Kleis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 48 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 Nui Nui PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | past | Captain | the following traders | | the Ellice Group | | Edmund Duffy and Jack Buckland and Harry Nitz and Jack O'Brien and Alfred Restieaux and Emile *obl*; Martin Kleis *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent trader=Theme | | 2 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tuvalu/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tuvalu/69/) - ↑ back to [Tuvalu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tuvalu/)