Cook Islands, sentence 7
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.
Like most members of the Pacific Islands Forum, the country has no armed forces, but the Cook Islands Police Service owns a Guardian Class Patrol Boat,, provided by Australia, for policing its waters.
Who acts: country, Police Service · What happens: have, own, provide, police · To what, where: armed forces, Class Patrol Boat, waters
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 (country, Police Service), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 members | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 members | amod |
| 3 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 has | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Forum | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Forum | det |
| 6 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Islands | compound |
| 7 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Forum | compound |
| 8 | Forum | Forum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 members | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 members | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 forces | det |
| 14 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 forces | amod |
| 15 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 has | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 owns | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 owns | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Service | det |
| 19 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Islands | compound |
| 20 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 Police | compound |
| 21 | Police | Police | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Service | compound |
| 22 | Service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 owns | nsubj |
| 23 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 has | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 Boat | det |
| 25 | Guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Class | amod |
| 26 | Class | Class | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Boat | compound |
| 27 | Patrol | Patrol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Boat | compound |
| 28 | Boat | Boat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 owns | obl |
| 29 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 30 provided | punct |
| 30 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 Boat | acl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 Australia | case |
| 32 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 provided | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 policing | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 policing | mark |
| 35 | policing | police | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 owns | advcl |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 waters | nmod:poss |
| 37 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 policing | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the country | no armed forces | like most members of the Islands Forum | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient | |||
| 2 | own | present | the Police Service | a Class Patrol Boat | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | provide | participle | a Class Patrol Boat not said here | by Australia | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | police | gerund | the Police Service not said here | Service's waters | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Beneficiary |
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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