Vanuatu, sentence 187
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 new government was the first time the Green Confederation was in power, and the new prime minister, Moana Carcasses Kalosil, was the first non-Ni-Vanuatu to hold the position (Kalosil is of mixed French-Tahitian ancestry and a naturalised Vanuatu citizen).
Who acts: new government, Moana, first non-Ni-Vanuatu, Kalosil · What happens: be, carcass, mix, naturalis · To what, where: power, Kalosil
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 (new government, Moana, first non-Ni-Vanuatu, Kalosil), 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 government | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 government | amod |
| 3 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 power | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 power | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 power | nsubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Confederation | det |
| 9 | Green | Green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Confederation | amod |
| 10 | Confederation | Confederation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 power | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 power | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 power | case |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hold | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 minister | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 minister | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 minister | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 minister | amod |
| 18 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 minister | amod |
| 19 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 power | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Carcasses | punct |
| 21 | Moana | Moana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Carcasses | nsubj |
| 22 | Carcasses | carcass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 power | conj |
| 23 | Kalosil | Kalosil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Carcasses | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 power | punct |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 hold | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 non-Ni-Vanuatu | det |
| 27 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 non-Ni-Vanuatu | amod |
| 28 | non-Ni-Vanuatu | non-ni-vanuatu | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 hold | nsubj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 hold | mark |
| 30 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 position | det |
| 32 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hold | obj |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 ancestry | punct |
| 34 | Kalosil | Kalosil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 ancestry | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 ancestry | cop |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 ancestry | case |
| 37 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 ancestry | amod |
| 38 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Tahitian | amod |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 French | punct |
| 40 | Tahitian | tahitian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 ancestry | amod |
| 41 | ancestry | ancestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hold | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 citizen | cc |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 citizen | det |
| 44 | naturalised | naturalis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 citizen | amod |
| 45 | Vanuatu | Vanuatu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 citizen | compound |
| 46 | citizen | citizen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ancestry | conj |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 ancestry | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the new government | power and the new prime minister | the Green Confederation nsubj; the new prime minister conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carcass | present | Moana | Kalosil | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the first non-Ni-Vanuatu | the position obj; hold property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | Kalosil | of mixed Tahitian ancestry and a naturalised Vanuatu citizen; a naturalised Vanuatu citizen conj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | naturalis | participle | 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Vanuatu», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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