Vanuatu, sentence 85

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 Convention of 16 October 1887 established the Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission for the sole purpose of protecting French and British citizens, with no claim to jurisdiction over internal native affairs.

Who acts: Convention, sole purpose · What happens: establish, protect · To what, where: Joint Naval Commission, French citizens

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 (Convention, sole purpose), 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 Convention	det
2	Convention	Convention	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 established	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 16	case
4	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Convention	nmod
5	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 16	nmod:unmarked
6	1887	1887	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 16	nmod:unmarked
7	established	establish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Commission	det
9	Anglo	Anglo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 French	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Anglo	punct
11	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Commission	nsubj
12	Joint	Joint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Commission	amod
13	Naval	Naval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Commission	amod
14	Commission	Commission	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 established	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 purpose	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 purpose	det
17	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 purpose	amod
18	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 established	obl
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 protecting	mark
20	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 purpose	acl
21	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 citizens	amod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 British	cc
23	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 French	conj
24	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 protecting	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 claim	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 claim	case
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 claim	det
28	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 citizens	appos
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 jurisdiction	case
30	jurisdiction	jurisdiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 claim	nmod
31	over	over	ADP	_	34 affairs	case
32	internal	internal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 affairs	amod
33	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 affairs	amod
34	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 claim	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 established	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	establish	past	the Convention of 16 October 1887	the Joint Naval Commission Anglo French				for the sole purpose	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commission=Patient
2	protect	gerund	the sole purpose not said here		French citizens				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent citizen=Beneficiary

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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Vanuatu, sentence 85