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title: There are 15 major islands spread over 2200000 km2 of ocean, divided… — Cook Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: There are 15 major islands spread over 2200000 km2 of ocean, divided into two distinct groups: the Southern Cook Islands and the Northern Cook Islands of coral atolls. Who acts: 15 major islands. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cook Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cook Islands, sentence 69

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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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There are 15 major islands spread over 2200000 km2 of ocean, divided into two distinct groups: the Southern Cook Islands and the Northern Cook Islands of coral atolls.

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**Who acts:** 15 major islands · **What happens:** be, spread, divide · **To what, where:** 2200000, two distinct groups

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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 (15 major 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:69
# text = There are 15 major islands spread over 2200000 km2 of ocean, divided into two distinct groups: the Southern Cook Islands and the Northern Cook Islands of coral atolls.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
3	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2200000	2200000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	22	compound	_	_
21	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	atolls	atoll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | 15 major islands *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spread** | present | 15 major islands |  |  | 2200000 |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over 2200000=Location |
| 3 | **divide** | participle |  |  |  | two distinct groups  the Southern Cook Islands and the Northern Cook Islands of coral atolls |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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