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title: The country's economic development has been suspected to be hindered… — Vanuatu · tree and pragmatics
description: The country's economic development has been suspected to be hindered by dependence on relatively few commodity exports, vulnerability to natural disasters, and long distances between constituent islands and from main markets. Who acts: dependence, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vanuatu» with it
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# Vanuatu, sentence 342

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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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The country's economic development has been suspected to be hindered by dependence on relatively few commodity exports, vulnerability to natural disasters, and long distances between constituent islands and from main markets.

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**Who acts:** dependence, country · **What happens:** suspect, hinder, develop · **To what, where:** economic development, few commodity exports

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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 (dependence, country), 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:342
# text = The country's economic development has been suspected to be hindered by dependence on relatively few commodity exports, vulnerability to natural disasters, and long distances between constituent islands and from main markets.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	suspected	suspect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	hindered	hinder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dependence	dependence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	commodity	commodity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	exports	export	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	vulnerability	vulnerability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	disasters	disaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	distances	distance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	constituent	constituent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	markets	market	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suspect** | present · perfect · passive |  | the country's economic development |  |  |  | long distances between constituent islands and main markets *obl* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hinder** | to-infinitive · passive | dependence |  |  | few commodity exports and vulnerability to natural disasters |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **develop** |  | the country |  |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: poss=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, «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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