Fiji, sentence 84
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.
The religious conversion of the Fijians was a gradual process which was observed first-hand by Captain Charles Wilkes of the United States Exploring Expedition.
Who acts: religious conversion, Charles Wilkes, United States · What happens: be, observe, explore, convert · To what, where: gradual process, Expedition, 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 (religious conversion, Charles Wilkes, United States), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 conversion | det |
| 2 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 conversion | amod |
| 3 | conversion | conversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 process | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Fijians | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fijians | det |
| 6 | Fijians | Fijian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 conversion | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 process | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 process | det |
| 9 | gradual | gradual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 process | amod |
| 10 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 observed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 observed | aux:pass |
| 13 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 process | acl:relcl |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 hand | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 first | punct |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 observed | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Wilkes | case |
| 18 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Charles | compound |
| 19 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Wilkes | compound |
| 20 | Wilkes | wilke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 observed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 States | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 States | det |
| 23 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 States | amod |
| 24 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 Wilkes | nmod |
| 25 | Exploring | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 States | acl |
| 26 | Expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Exploring | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 process | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the religious conversion of the Fijians | a gradual process | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | observe | past · passive | Charles Wilkes of the United States | a gradual process | first hand obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | explore | gerund | the United States not said here | Expedition | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent expedition=Location | ||||
| 4 | convert | the Fijians | nom conversion «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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