Fiji, sentence 264
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.
He told his followers that if they returned to traditional ways and worshipped traditional deities such as Degei and Rokola, their current condition would be transformed, with the whites and their puppet Fijian chiefs being subservient to them.
Who acts: Navosavakandua, movements, traditional deities, puppet Fijian chiefs · What happens: tell, return, worshipp, transform, be, condition · To what, where: followers, traditional deities, current condition, subservient, movements · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Navosavakandua, movements, traditional deities, puppet Fijian chiefs), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 followers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 returned | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 returned | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 returned | nsubj |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ways | case |
| 10 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ways | amod |
| 11 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 returned | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 worshipped | cc |
| 13 | worshipped | worshipp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 14 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deities | amod |
| 15 | deities | deity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 worshipped | obj |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 18 Degei | case |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 such | fixed |
| 18 | Degei | Degei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 deities | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Rokola | cc |
| 20 | Rokola | Rokola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Degei | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 transformed | punct |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 condition | nmod:poss |
| 23 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 condition | amod |
| 24 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 transformed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 transformed | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 transformed | aux:pass |
| 27 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 deities | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 whites | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 whites | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 whites | det |
| 31 | whites | white | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 transformed | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 subservient | cc |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 subservient | nmod:poss |
| 34 | puppet | puppet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 chiefs | amod |
| 35 | Fijian | fijian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 chiefs | amod |
| 36 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 subservient | nsubj |
| 37 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 subservient | cop |
| 38 | subservient | subservient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 whites | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 subservient | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Navosavakandua | Navosavakandua's followers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent follower=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | return a condition, not said to happen | past | movements = movement | to traditional ways result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to way=Result | ||||
| 3 | worshipp | past | Navosavakandua not said here | traditional deities | such Degei and Rokola | tree rules | |||
| 4 | transform | would · passive | traditional deities not said here | movements's current condition | with the whites and movements's subservient | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | is a | gerund | puppet Fijian chiefs | movements's subservient | movements = movement | tree rules | |||
| 6 | condition | movements = movement | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=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.
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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