Vanuatu, sentence 17
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.
It was used in the proclamation of independence made by the Vanuaaku People's Provisional Government in 1978.
What happens: use, make, proclaim · To what, where: pro-independence, proclamation, 1978, independence
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | aux:pass |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 proclamation | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 proclamation | det |
| 6 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 independence | case |
| 8 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proclamation | nmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 proclamation | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Government | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 People | det |
| 12 | Vanuaaku | Vanuaaku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 People | compound |
| 13 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Government | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 People | case |
| 15 | Provisional | provisional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Government | amod |
| 16 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl:agent |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1978 | case |
| 18 | 1978 | 1978 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 made | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | pro-independence | the proclamation of independence | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the proclamation of independence not said here | 1978 | the Vanuaaku People's Provisional Government obl:agent | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 3 | proclaim | independence | nom proclamation «communication 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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