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title: Harry Clifford Fassett, captain's clerk and photographer, recorded p… — Tuvalu · tree and pragmatics
description: Harry Clifford Fassett, captain's clerk and photographer, recorded people, communities and scenes at Funafuti in 1900 during a visit of USFC Albatross when the United States Fish Commission was investigating the formation of coral reefs on Pacific atolls. Who acts: States Fish Commission. A sentence
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# Tuvalu, sentence 92

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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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Harry Clifford Fassett, captain's clerk and photographer, recorded people, communities and scenes at Funafuti in 1900 during a visit of USFC Albatross when the United States Fish Commission was investigating the formation of coral reefs on Pacific atolls.

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**Who acts:** States Fish Commission · **What happens:** record, investigate, visit · **To what, where:** formation, Harry, USFC Albatross

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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 (States Fish Commission), 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:92
# text = Harry Clifford Fassett, captain's clerk and photographer, recorded people, communities and scenes at Funafuti in 1900 during a visit of USFC Albatross when the United States Fish Commission was investigating the formation of coral reefs on Pacific atolls.
1	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Clifford	Clifford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Fassett	Fassett	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	photographer	photographer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Funafuti	Funafuti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
21	during	during	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	USFC	USFC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Albatross	Albatross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	compound	_	_
31	Fish	Fish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Commission	Commission	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	investigating	investigate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	parataxis	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	formation	formation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	_	39	compound	_	_
39	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	atolls	atoll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **investigate** | past · progressive | the States Fish Commission | the formation of coral reefs on Pacific atolls |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent formation=Theme |
| 4 | **visit** |  |  | USFC Albatross |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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