Fiji, sentence 277
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 21 September, the district police inspector took a number of Fijians to Wakaya, and von Luckner, not realising that they were unarmed, unwittingly surrendered.
Who acts: district police inspector · What happens: take, not realise, unarm, surrender · To what, where: number, 21, Fijians
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 (district police inspector), 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 21 | case |
| 2 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 took | obl |
| 3 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 21 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 inspector | det |
| 6 | district | district | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 inspector | amod |
| 7 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inspector | compound |
| 8 | inspector | inspector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 number | det |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Fijians | case |
| 13 | Fijians | Fijian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 number | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Wakaya | case |
| 15 | Wakaya | Wakaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fijians | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 von | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 von | cc |
| 18 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 9 took | obl |
| 19 | Luckner | Luckner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 von | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 realising | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 realising | advmod |
| 22 | realising | realise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 von | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 unarmed | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 unarmed | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 unarmed | aux:pass |
| 26 | unarmed | unarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 realising | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 surrendered | punct |
| 28 | unwittingly | unwittingly | ADV | _ | 29 surrendered | advmod |
| 29 | surrendered | surrender | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 unarmed | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the district police inspector | a number of Fijians to Wakaya | 21 September | von obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent number=Theme on 21=Destination | ||
| 2 | not realise | gerund | the district police inspector not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | unarm | past · passive | Fijians = fijian | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | surrender | participle | unwittingly property | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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