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title: This company also owned the first private National Bank of Samoa in… — Apia · tree and pragmatics
description: This company also owned the first private National Bank of Samoa in Samoa, with Grey Investment Group, Samoa Artisan Water Company Ltd and Apia Bottling Company Ltd as shareholders. Who acts: company. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Apia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Apia, sentence 65

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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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This company also owned the first private National Bank of Samoa in Samoa, with Grey Investment Group, Samoa Artisan Water Company Ltd and Apia Bottling Company Ltd as shareholders.

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**Who acts:** company · **What happens:** own · **To what, where:** first private National Bank, Samoa

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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 (company), 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:65
# text = This company also owned the first private National Bank of Samoa in Samoa, with Grey Investment Group, Samoa Artisan Water Company Ltd and Apia Bottling Company Ltd as shareholders.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
7	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Investment	Investment	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Group	Group	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Artisan	Artisan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	Ltd	Ltd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Apia	Apia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	Bottling	Bottling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
29	Ltd	Ltd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	shareholders	shareholder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past | this company | the first private National Bank of Samoa |  | Samoa |  | as shareholders; Grey Investment Group *parataxis* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bank=Theme |

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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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