Vanuatu, sentence 125
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 NNDP first came to prominence in 1971, when the Condominium government was forced to intervene after a rash of land speculation by foreign nationals.
Who acts: NNDP, Condominium government · What happens: come, force, intervene · To what, where: 1971, Condominium government
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 (NNDP, Condominium government), 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 NNDP | det |
| 2 | NNDP | NNDP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 prominence | case |
| 6 | prominence | prominence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1971 | case |
| 8 | 1971 | 1971 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forced | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 forced | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 government | det |
| 12 | Condominium | Condominium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 government | compound |
| 13 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forced | aux:pass |
| 15 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 intervene | mark |
| 17 | intervene | intervene | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 forced | xcomp |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 rash | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rash | det |
| 20 | rash | rash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 intervene | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 speculation | case |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 speculation | compound |
| 23 | speculation | speculation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rash | nmod |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 nationals | case |
| 25 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 nationals | amod |
| 26 | nationals | national | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 intervene | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the NNDP | 1971 | to prominence; first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prominence=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | force | past · passive | the Condominium government | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | intervene | to-infinitive | the Condominium government not said here | after a rash of land speculation | by foreign nationals | 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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