--- title: The first, held on all the islands on 22 December 1974, won 63.8% su… — Comoros · tree and pragmatics description: The first, held on all the islands on 22 December 1974, won 63.8% support for maintaining ties with France on Mayotte; the second, held in February 1976, confirmed that vote with an overwhelming 99.4%, while the third, in April 1976, confirmed that the people of Mayotte wished to remain a French ter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Comoros/72/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Comoros](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Comoros/) / 72 # Comoros, sentence 72 From Wikipedia, [«Comoros»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros), 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. The first, held on all the islands on 22 December 1974, won 63.8% support for maintaining ties with France on Mayotte; the second, held in February 1976, confirmed that vote with an overwhelming 99.4%, while the third, in April 1976, confirmed that the people of Mayotte wished to remain a French territory. **Who acts:** first, people · **What happens:** hold, win, maintain, confirm, wish, remain · **To what, where:** islands, % support, ties, Mayotte, vote, French territory This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Comoros». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, people), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Comoros:72 # text = The first, held on all the islands on 22 December 1974, won 63.8% support for maintaining ties with France on Mayotte; the second, held in February 1976, confirmed that vote with an overwhelming 99.4%, while the third, in April 1976, confirmed that the people of Mayotte wished to remain a French territory. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 8 det:predet _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 22 22 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 11 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:unmarked _ _ 12 1974 1974 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 63.8 63.8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 support support NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 maintaining maintain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 20 ties tie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Mayotte Mayotte PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 1976 1976 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 confirmed confirm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 35 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 overwhelming overwhelming ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 99.4 99.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 while while SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 49 1976 1976 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 confirmed confirm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 52 that that SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 nsubj _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 Mayotte Mayotte PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 57 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 ccomp _ _ 58 to to PART TO _ 59 mark _ _ 59 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 57 xcomp _ _ 60 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 61 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | participle | | | | all islands on 22 December | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | | 2 | **win** | past | | % support | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Eventuality | | 3 | **maintain** | gerund | | ties | | Mayotte | | with France | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tie=Theme | | 4 | **hold** | participle | the first *not said here* | | | | february | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **confirm** | past | the first | that vote | | | april | | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot vote=Topic | | 6 | **confirm** | past | the first *not said here* | | | | | | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic | | 7 | **wish** | past | the people of Mayotte | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **remain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the people of Mayotte *not said here* | a French territory | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Comoros», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Comoros/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Comoros/73/) - ↑ back to [Comoros](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Comoros/)