Cook Islands, sentence 43
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.
Even though the inhabitants regarded themselves as British subjects, the Crown's title was unclear until the island was formally annexed by that Proclamation.
Who acts: inhabitants, title, Proclamation, Crown · What happens: regard, be, annex, title · To what, where: inhabitants, island
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 (inhabitants, title, Proclamation, Crown), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 regarded | advmod |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 regarded | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 inhabitants | det |
| 4 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 regarded | nsubj |
| 5 | regarded | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 regarded | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 subjects | case |
| 8 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 subjects | amod |
| 9 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 regarded | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 unclear | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Crown | det |
| 12 | Crown | Crown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 title | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Crown | case |
| 14 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 unclear | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 unclear | cop |
| 16 | unclear | unclear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 regarded | conj |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 annexed | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 annexed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 annexed | aux:pass |
| 21 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 22 annexed | advmod |
| 22 | annexed | annex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 unclear | advcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Proclamation | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 Proclamation | det |
| 25 | Proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 annexed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 regarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | past | the inhabitants | inhabitants = inhabitant | as British subjects | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme as subject=Value | |||
| 2 | is | past | the Crown's title | unclear property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | annex | past · passive | that Proclamation | the island | formally property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | title | the Crown | nom title «communication transitive»: poss=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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