Fiji, sentence 118
From Wikipedia, «Fiji», 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.
With the demand for land high, the white planters started to push into the hilly interior of Viti Levu.
Who acts: white planters · What happens: start, push · To what, where: hilly interior
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Fiji». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white planters), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 demand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 demand | det |
| 3 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 land | case |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 demand | nmod |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 land | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 demand | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 planters | det |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 planters | amod |
| 10 | planters | planter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 started | nsubj |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 push | mark |
| 13 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 started | xcomp |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 interior | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 interior | det |
| 16 | hilly | hilly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 interior | amod |
| 17 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 push | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Viti | case |
| 19 | Viti | Viti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 interior | nmod |
| 20 | Levu | Levu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Viti | flat |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the white planters | with the demand for land | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | push | to-infinitive | the white planters not said here | the hilly interior of Viti | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into interior=Destination |
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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