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title: Apia was originally a small village (the 1800 population was 304), f… — Apia · tree and pragmatics
description: Apia was originally a small village (the 1800 population was 304), from which the country's capital took its name. Who acts: Apia, capital, village. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Apia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Apia, sentence 7

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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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Apia was originally a small village (the 1800 population was 304), from which the country's capital took its name.

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**Who acts:** Apia, capital, village · **What happens:** be, take, name · **To what, where:** small village, 304, name

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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 (Apia, capital, village), 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:7
# text = Apia was originally a small village (the 1800 population was 304), from which the country's capital took its name.
1	Apia	Apia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	1800	1800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	304	304	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Apia | a small village |  |  |  | the 1800 population *appos*; originally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | 304 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | the country's capital | village's name |  | a small village |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent name=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **name** |  | village |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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