Cook Islands, sentence 62
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.
He was succeeded by Tom Davis of the Democratic Party, who held that position until March 1983.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: succeed, hold · To what, where: Henry, position
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 (Tom), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 succeeded | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 succeeded | aux:pass |
| 3 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Tom | case |
| 5 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 succeeded | obl |
| 6 | Davis | Davis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tom | flat |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Party | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Party | det |
| 9 | Democratic | Democratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Party | amod |
| 10 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Davis | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 held | nsubj |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Tom | acl:relcl |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 position | det |
| 15 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obj |
| 16 | until | until | ADP | _ | 18 1983 | case |
| 17 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 1983 | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | 1983 | 1983 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 held | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past · passive | Tom | Henry | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | Tom | that position | until 1983 March | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme |
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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