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title: This situation had changed by the passage of the Cook Islands Act 19… — Cook Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: This situation had changed by the passage of the Cook Islands Act 1915, which defined the Cooks' area and included all presently included islands. Who acts: situation, Cook Islands. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cook Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cook Islands, sentence 23

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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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This situation had changed by the passage of the Cook Islands Act 1915, which defined the Cooks' area and included all presently included islands.

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**Who acts:** situation, Cook Islands · **What happens:** change, define, include, pass · **To what, where:** area, included islands

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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 (situation, Cook Islands), 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:23
# text = This situation had changed by the passage of the Cook Islands Act 1915, which defined the Cooks' area and included all presently included islands.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	1915	1915	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	defined	define	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Cooks	cook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	included	include	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	included	include	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · perfect | this situation |  |  |  |  | by the passage of the Cook Islands  1915  Act | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **define** | past | the Cook Islands  1915  Act | the Cooks's area |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme |
| 3 | **include** | past | the Cook Islands  1915  Act *not said here* | included islands |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme |
| 4 | **include** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pass** |  | the Cook Islands  1915  Act |  |  |  |  |  | nom passage «act intransitive»: of=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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