Vanuatu, sentence 88
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.
Hostilities between settlers and Ni-Vanuatu were commonplace, often centring on disputes over land which had been purchased in dubious circumstances.
Who acts: Hostilities, commonplace · What happens: be, centre, purchase · To what, where: commonplace, disputes, land, dubious circumstances
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 (Hostilities, commonplace), 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 | Hostilities | hostility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 commonplace | nsubj |
| 2 | between | between | ADP | _ | 3 settlers | case |
| 3 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hostilities | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Ni | cc |
| 5 | Ni | Ni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 settlers | conj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Vanuatu | punct |
| 7 | Vanuatu | Vanuatu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ni | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 commonplace | cop |
| 9 | commonplace | commonplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 centring | punct |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 centring | advmod |
| 12 | centring | centre | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 commonplace | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 disputes | case |
| 14 | disputes | dispute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 centring | obl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 centring | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 purchased | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 purchased | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 purchased | aux:pass |
| 20 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 land | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 circumstances | case |
| 22 | dubious | dubious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 circumstances | amod |
| 23 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 purchased | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 commonplace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Hostilities between settlers and Ni and Vanuatu | commonplace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | centre | gerund | commonplace not said here | disputes | over land; often property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | purchase | past · perfect · passive | land | dubious circumstances | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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