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title: On 13 July 2017, the Cook Islands established Marae Moana, making it… — Cook Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: On 13 July 2017, the Cook Islands established Marae Moana, making it become the world's largest protected area by size. Who acts: Cook Islands, position. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cook Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cook Islands, sentence 63

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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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On 13 July 2017, the Cook Islands established Marae Moana, making it become the world's largest protected area by size.

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**Who acts:** Cook Islands, position · **What happens:** establish, make, become, protect · **To what, where:** Marae, position, largest protected area

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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 (Cook Islands, position), 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:63
# text = On 13 July 2017, the Cook Islands established Marae Moana, making it become the world's largest protected area by size.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Marae	Marae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	Moana	Moana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
20	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past | the Cook Islands | Marae |  |  | july |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marae=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the Cook Islands *not said here* | position |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | infinitive | position *not said here* | the world's largest protected area by size |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **protect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: 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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