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title: Avarua (meaning "two harbours" in Māori) is a district and township… — Avarua · tree and pragmatics
description: Avarua (meaning "two harbours" in Māori) is a district and township in the north of the island of Rarotonga, the largest island of the Cook Islands. Who acts: Avarua. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Avarua» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Avarua, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Avarua»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avarua), 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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Avarua (meaning "two harbours" in Māori) is a district and township in the north of the island of Rarotonga, the largest island of the Cook Islands.

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**Who acts:** Avarua · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** two harbours, Māori, district · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Avarua». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Avarua), 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:Avarua:1
# text = Avarua (meaning "two harbours" in Māori) is a district and township in the north of the island of Rarotonga, the largest island of the Cook Islands.
1	Avarua	Avarua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	harbours	harbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	township	township	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Rarotonga	Rarotonga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | gerund | Avarua | two harbours |  | Māori |  | in the north of the island of Rarotonga | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot harbour=Theme in north=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a district and township |  |  |  | township *conj* | tree rules |

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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, «Avarua», 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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