Fiji, sentence 202
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.
On 23 September, Sir Hercules Robinson, soon to be appointed the British Governor of Fiji, arrived on HMS Dido and received Cakobau with a royal 21-gun salute.
Who acts: British Governor, Hercules · What happens: appoint, arrive, receive · To what, where: 23, Cakobau
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 (British Governor, Hercules), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 23 | case |
| 2 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 arrived | obl |
| 3 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 23 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 23 | punct |
| 5 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hercules | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | Robinson | Robinson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hercules | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appointed | punct |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 appointed | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 appointed | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 appointed | aux:pass |
| 12 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Hercules | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Governor | det |
| 14 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Governor | amod |
| 15 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 appointed | obl:agent |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Fiji | case |
| 17 | Fiji | Fiji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Governor | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hercules | punct |
| 19 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Dido | case |
| 21 | HMS | HMS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Dido | compound |
| 22 | Dido | Dido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 arrived | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 received | cc |
| 24 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 arrived | conj |
| 25 | Cakobau | Cakobau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 received | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 salute | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 salute | det |
| 28 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 salute | amod |
| 29 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 gun | nummod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 21 | punct |
| 31 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 salute | compound |
| 32 | salute | salute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 received | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | to-infinitive · passive | the British Governor of Fiji | soon property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | Hercules Sir | 23 September | on HMS Dido | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | receive | past | Hercules Sir not said here | Cakobau | with a royal gun salute | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cakobau=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.
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