Fiji, sentence 43

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 also developed a distinctive style of village architecture, consisting of communal and individual bure and vale housing, and an advanced system of ramparts and moats that were usually constructed around the more important settlements.

Who acts: Fijians · What happens: develop, consist, construct · To what, where: distinctive style, advanced system, important settlements

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	3 developed	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 developed	advmod
3	developed	develop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 style	det
5	distinctive	distinctive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 style	amod
6	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 developed	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 architecture	case
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 architecture	compound
9	architecture	architecture	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 style	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 consisting	punct
11	consisting	consist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 developed	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 bure	case
13	communal	communal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bure	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 individual	cc
15	individual	individual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 communal	conj
16	bure	bure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 consisting	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 housing	cc
18	vale	vale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 housing	compound
19	housing	housing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bure	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 constructed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 constructed	cc
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 system	det
23	advanced	advanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 system	amod
24	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 constructed	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 ramparts	case
26	ramparts	rampart	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 system	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 moats	cc
28	moats	moat	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ramparts	conj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 constructed	obj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 constructed	aux:pass
31	usually	usually	ADV	_	32 constructed	advmod
32	constructed	construct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 developed	conj
33	around	around	ADP	_	37 settlements	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 settlements	det
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 important	advmod
36	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 settlements	amod
37	settlements	settlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 constructed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 developed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	develop	past	Fijians	a distinctive style of village architecture			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Product
2	consist	gerund	Fijians not said here			of communal bure and vale housing	tree rules
3	construct	past · passive		a advanced system of ramparts and moats	the important settlements	that obj; usually property	tree rules

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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Fiji, sentence 43