Fiji, sentence 156
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.
A skirmish between the government's troops and the white settlers' brigade was only prevented by the intervention of Captain William Cox Chapman of, who detained the settlers' leaders, forcing the group to disband.
Who acts: intervention, Cox Chapman · What happens: prevent, detain, force, disband, intervene · To what, where: skirmish, leaders, group
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 (intervention, Cox Chapman), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 skirmish | det |
| 2 | skirmish | skirmish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prevented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 troops | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 government | det |
| 5 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 troops | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 government | case |
| 7 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 skirmish | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brigade | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 settlers | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 settlers | amod |
| 11 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 brigade | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 settlers | case |
| 13 | brigade | brigade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 skirmish | conj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 prevented | aux:pass |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 prevented | advmod |
| 16 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 intervention | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 intervention | det |
| 19 | intervention | intervention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prevented | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Chapman | case |
| 21 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 William | nmod:desc |
| 22 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Chapman | nsubj |
| 23 | Cox | Cox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Chapman | compound |
| 24 | Chapman | Chapman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 intervention | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 28 detained | mark |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 detained | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 detained | nsubj |
| 28 | detained | detain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Chapman | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 settlers | det |
| 30 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 leaders | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 30 settlers | case |
| 32 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 detained | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 forcing | punct |
| 34 | forcing | force | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 detained | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 group | det |
| 36 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 forcing | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 disband | mark |
| 38 | disband | disband | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 group | acl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 prevented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevent | past · passive | the intervention of Cox Chapman William Captain | a skirmish between the government's troops and the white settlers's brigade | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | detain | past | Cox Chapman William Captain | the settlers's leaders | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme | ||||
| 3 | force | gerund | Cox Chapman William Captain not said here | the group | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | disband | to-infinitive | Cox Chapman William Captain not said here | the group not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | intervene | Cox Chapman William Captain | nom intervention «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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