Fiji, sentence 141

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.

In 1871, the killing of two settlers near the Ba River in the northwest of the island prompted a large punitive expedition of white farmers, imported slave labourers, and coastal Fijians to be organised.

Who acts: killing · What happens: prompt, import, organise, kill · To what, where: large punitive expedition, 1871, two settlers

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 (killing), 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	_	2 1871	case
2	1871	1871	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 prompted	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1871	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 killing	det
5	killing	killing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 prompted	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 settlers	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 settlers	nummod
8	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 killing	nmod
9	near	near	ADP	_	12 River	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 River	det
11	Ba	Ba	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 River	compound
12	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 settlers	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 northwest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 northwest	det
15	northwest	northwest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 River	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 island	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 island	det
18	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 northwest	nmod
19	prompted	prompt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 expedition	det
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 expedition	amod
22	punitive	punitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 expedition	amod
23	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 prompted	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 farmers	case
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 farmers	amod
26	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 expedition	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 labourers	punct
28	imported	import	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 labourers	amod
29	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 labourers	compound
30	labourers	labourer	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 farmers	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Fijians	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Fijians	cc
33	coastal	coastal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Fijians	amod
34	Fijians	Fijian	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 prompted	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	37 organised	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 organised	aux:pass
37	organised	organise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 Fijians	acl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 prompted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prompt	past	the killing of two settlers near the Ba River in the northwest of the island	a large punitive expedition of white farmers and imported slave labourers	1871	coastal Fijians conj	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition expedition=Patient
2	import	participle					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	organise	to-infinitive · passive	the killing of two settlers near the Ba River in the northwest of the island not said here				tree rules
4	kill			two settlers near the Ba River in the northwest of the island			nom killing «event transitive»: of=patient

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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Fiji, sentence 141