Fiji, sentence 42
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.
Fijians constructed large, elegant watercraft, with rigged sails called drua and exported some to Tonga.
Who acts: Fijians · What happens: construct, rig, call, export · To what, where: large elegant watercraft, rigged sails, some, Tonga · 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 (Fijians), 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 | Fijians | fijian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 constructed | nsubj |
| 2 | constructed | construct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 watercraft | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 large | punct |
| 5 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 watercraft | amod |
| 6 | watercraft | watercraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 constructed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sails | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sails | case |
| 9 | rigged | rig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sails | amod |
| 10 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 constructed | obl |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sails | acl |
| 12 | drua | drua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 exported | cc |
| 14 | exported | export | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 constructed | conj |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 exported | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Tonga | case |
| 17 | Tonga | Tonga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 exported | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 constructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | construct | past | Fijians | large elegant watercraft | with rigged sails | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent watercraft=Patient with sail=Instrument | |||
| 2 | rig | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | rigged sails not said here | drua xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | export | past | Fijians not said here | some | Tonga | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme to tonga=Destination |
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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