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title: It was the first time a tournament officially sanctioned by the Inte… — Apia · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the first time a tournament officially sanctioned by the International Cricket Council had been held in the region. Who acts: team, first time. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Apia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Apia, sentence 144

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From Wikipedia, [«Apia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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It was the first time a tournament officially sanctioned by the International Cricket Council had been held in the region.

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**Who acts:** team, first time · **What happens:** be, sanction, hold · **To what, where:** first time, tournament, region

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Apia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (team, first time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Apia:144
# text = It was the first time a tournament officially sanctioned by the International Cricket Council had been held in the region.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tournament	tournament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	sanctioned	sanction	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Cricket	Cricket	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | team | the first time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sanction** | participle |  | a tournament *not said here* |  |  |  | by the International Cricket Council; officially *property* | vn allow-64.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **hold** | past · perfect · passive | the first time *not said here* | a tournament |  | the region |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in region=Location |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Apia», 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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