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title: The islands as a whole are named after the English captain and explo… — Cook Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: The islands as a whole are named after the English captain and explorer James Cook, who visited during the 1770s and named Manuae "Hervey Island" after Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol. Who acts: English captain. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cook Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cook Islands, sentence 18

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From Wikipedia, [«Cook Islands»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Islands), 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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The islands as a whole are named after the English captain and explorer James Cook, who visited during the 1770s and named Manuae "Hervey Island" after Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol.

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**Who acts:** English captain · **What happens:** name, visit · **To what, where:** islands, Manuae Hervey Island

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cook Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (English captain), 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:Cook_Islands:18
# text = The islands as a whole are named after the English captain and explorer James Cook, who visited during the 1770s and named Manuae "Hervey Island" after Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	during	during	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	1770s	1770	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	Manuae	Manuae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Hervey	Hervey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	Augustus	Augustus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Hervey	Hervey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	3rd	3rd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	34	amod	_	_
34	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | present · passive |  | the islands as a whole |  |  | after the English captain and explorer James |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** | past | the English captain and explorer James |  |  |  | during the 1770s |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **name** | past | the English captain and explorer James *not said here* | Manuae Hervey Island |  |  | after Augustus Hervey |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «Cook Islands», 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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