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title: There are eleven species of bats (three unique to Vanuatu) and sixty… — Vanuatu · tree and pragmatics
description: There are eleven species of bats (three unique to Vanuatu) and sixty-one species of land and water birds. Who acts: eleven species. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vanuatu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vanuatu, sentence 230

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From Wikipedia, [«Vanuatu»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu), 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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There are eleven species of bats (three unique to Vanuatu) and sixty-one species of land and water birds.

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**Who acts:** eleven species · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vanuatu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eleven species), 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:Vanuatu:230
# text = There are eleven species of bats (three unique to Vanuatu) and sixty-one species of land and water birds.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	unique	unique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Vanuatu	Vanuatu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | eleven species of bats and one species of land birds |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Vanuatu», 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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