Cook Islands, sentence 8
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.
In recent decades, the Cook Islands has adopted an increasingly assertive and distinct foreign policy, and a Cook Islander, Henry Puna, served as Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum from 2021 to 2024.
Who acts: Cook Islander · What happens: adopt, serve · To what, where: Cook Islands, 2021
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 (Cook Islander), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 decades | case |
| 2 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 decades | amod |
| 3 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 adopted | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 decades | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Islands | det |
| 6 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Islands | compound |
| 7 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 adopted | aux |
| 9 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 policy | det |
| 11 | increasingly | increasingly | ADV | _ | 12 assertive | advmod |
| 12 | assertive | assertive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 policy | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 distinct | cc |
| 14 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 assertive | conj |
| 15 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 policy | amod |
| 16 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 adopted | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 served | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 served | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Islander | det |
| 20 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Islander | compound |
| 21 | Islander | Islander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 served | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Henry | punct |
| 23 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Islander | appos |
| 24 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Henry | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Islander | punct |
| 26 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 adopted | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 General | case |
| 28 | Secretary | Secretary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 General | compound |
| 29 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 served | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Forum | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Forum | det |
| 32 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Islands | compound |
| 33 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 Forum | compound |
| 34 | Forum | Forum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 General | nmod |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 2021 | case |
| 36 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 served | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 2024 | case |
| 38 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 2021 | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 adopted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | present · perfect · passive | the Cook Islands | decade | a assertive foreign policy obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme policy=Attribute | |||
| 2 | serve | past | a Cook Islander | 2021 to 2024 | as Secretary General of the Islands Forum | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as general=Attribute |
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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