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Fiji, sentence 135

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.

However, many of the settlers had come from Australia, where negotiation with the indigenous people almost universally involved coercing them to accept very unfavourable terms.

Who acts: many · What happens: come, coerce, accept · To what, where: Australia, peoples, unfavourable terms

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 (many), 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

advmodpunctnsubjcasedetnmodauxcaseoblpunctadvmodnsubjcasedetamodnmodadvmodadvmodacl:relcladvclobjmarkadvcladvmodamodobjpunctrootHoweverADV,PUNCTmanyADJofADPtheDETsettlersNOUNhadAUXcomeVERBfromADPAustraliaPROPN,PUNCTwhereADVnegotiationNOUNwithADPtheDETindigenousADJpeopleNOUNalmostADVuniversallyADVinvolvedADJcoercingVERBthemPRONtoPARTacceptVERBveryADVunfavourableADJtermsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HoweverhoweverADV_8 comeadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Howeverpunct
3manymanyADJDegree=Pos8 comensubj
4ofofADP_6 settlerscase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 settlersdet
6settlerssettlerNOUNNumber=Plur3 manynmod
7hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 comeaux
8comecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
9fromfromADP_10 Australiacase
10AustraliaAustraliaPROPNNumber=Sing8 comeobl
11,,PUNCT_20 involvedpunct
12wherewhereADVPronType=Rel20 involvedadvmod
13negotiationnegotiationNOUNNumber=Sing20 involvednsubj
14withwithADP_17 peoplecase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 peopledet
16indigenousindigenousADJDegree=Pos17 peopleamod
17peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur13 negotiationnmod
18almostalmostADV_19 universallyadvmod
19universallyuniversallyADV_20 involvedadvmod
20involvedinvolvedADJDegree=Pos10 Australiaacl:relcl
21coercingcoerceVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 involvedadvcl
22themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 coercingobj
23totoPART_24 acceptmark
24acceptacceptVERBVerbForm=Inf21 coercingadvcl
25veryveryADV_26 unfavourableadvmod
26unfavourableunfavourableADJDegree=Pos27 termsamod
27termstermNOUNNumber=Plur24 acceptobj
28..PUNCT_8 comepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepast · perfectmany of the settlersAustraliahowever propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from australia=Initial_Location
2coercegerundmany of the settlers not said herepeoples = peoplevn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3acceptto-infinitivemany of the settlers not said hereunfavourable termsvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Fiji», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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