Vanuatu, sentence 122
From Wikipedia, «Vanuatu», 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 movement gained a large following, prompting a crackdown by the authorities, with Buluk and Stevens being arrested in 1967.
Who acts: movement · What happens: gain, follow, prompt, arrest · To what, where: crackdown, Buluk, 1967
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vanuatu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (movement), 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 | 2 movement | det |
| 2 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gained | nsubj |
| 3 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 large | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gained | xcomp |
| 6 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 large | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 prompting | punct |
| 8 | prompting | prompt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 following | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crackdown | det |
| 10 | crackdown | crackdown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prompting | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 authorities | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 authorities | det |
| 13 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 prompting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Buluk | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Buluk | case |
| 16 | Buluk | Buluk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 authorities | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Stevens | cc |
| 18 | Stevens | Stevens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Buluk | conj |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 arrested | aux:pass |
| 20 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Buluk | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1967 | case |
| 22 | 1967 | 1967 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 arrested | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past | the movement | large property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | the movement not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | prompt | gerund | the movement not said here | a crackdown | by the authorities with Buluk and Stevens | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition crackdown=Patient | |||
| 4 | arrest | gerund · passive | Buluk and Stevens not said here | 1967 | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» |
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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