Vanuatu, sentence 69
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.
Because of this, and the poor conditions and abuse often faced by workers, as well the introduction of common diseases to which native Ni-Vanuatu had no immunity, the population of Vanuatu declined severely, with the current population being greatly reduced compared to pre-contact times.
Who acts: native Ni, immunity · What happens: face, have, decline, reduce, compare, introduce · To what, where: current population, common diseases
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 (native Ni, immunity), 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 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 this | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Because | fixed |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 conditions | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 conditions | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 conditions | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 conditions | amod |
| 8 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 this | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 faced | cc |
| 10 | abuse | abuse | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 faced | aux |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 faced | advmod |
| 12 | faced | face | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 conditions | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 workers | case |
| 14 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 faced | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 introduction | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 19 introduction | cc |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 as | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 introduction | det |
| 19 | introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 workers | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 diseases | case |
| 21 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 diseases | amod |
| 22 | diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 introduction | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 had | obl |
| 25 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Ni | amod |
| 26 | Ni | Ni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 had | nsubj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Vanuatu | punct |
| 28 | Vanuatu | Vanuatu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Ni | conj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 diseases | acl:relcl |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 immunity | det |
| 31 | immunity | immunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 declined | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 population | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 population | det |
| 34 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 immunity | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Vanuatu | case |
| 36 | Vanuatu | Vanuatu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 population | nmod |
| 37 | declined | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 had | ccomp |
| 38 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 37 declined | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 population | punct |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 population | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 population | det |
| 42 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 population | amod |
| 43 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 declined | obl |
| 44 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 reduced | aux:pass |
| 45 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 46 reduced | advmod |
| 46 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 population | acl |
| 47 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 reduced | advcl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 times | case |
| 49 | pre-contact | pre-contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 times | compound |
| 50 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 compared | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 conditions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | present | by workers the introduction of common diseases; often property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | native Ni and Vanuatu | to common diseases | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | decline | past | no immunity | with the current population; severely property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | reduce | gerund · passive | the current population not said here | greatly property | vn limit-76 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 5 | compare | participle | time | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | introduce | common diseases | nom introduction «act 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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