Cook Islands, sentence 23
From Wikipedia, «Cook Islands», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
This situation had changed by the passage of the Cook Islands Act 1915, which defined the Cooks' area and included all presently included islands.
Who acts: situation, Cook Islands · What happens: change, define, include, pass · To what, where: area, included islands
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cook Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (situation, Cook Islands), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 situation | det |
| 2 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | aux |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 passage | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 passage | det |
| 7 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Islands | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Islands | det |
| 10 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Islands | compound |
| 11 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 passage | nmod |
| 12 | Act | Act | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 1915 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | 1915 | 1915 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Islands | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 defined | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 defined | nsubj |
| 16 | defined | define | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Islands | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Cooks | det |
| 18 | Cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 area | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 Cooks | case |
| 20 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 defined | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 included | cc |
| 22 | included | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 defined | conj |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 presently | advmod |
| 24 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 25 included | advmod |
| 25 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 islands | amod |
| 26 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 included | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · perfect | this situation | by the passage of the Cook Islands 1915 Act | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | define | past | the Cook Islands 1915 Act | the Cooks's area | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme | ||||
| 3 | include | past | the Cook Islands 1915 Act not said here | included islands | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme | ||||
| 4 | include | participle | presently property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pass | the Cook Islands 1915 Act | nom passage «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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