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title: Like most members of the Pacific Islands Forum, the country has no a… — Cook Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: Like most members of the Pacific Islands Forum, the country has no armed forces, but the Cook Islands Police Service owns a Guardian Class Patrol Boat,, provided by Australia, for policing its waters. Who acts: country, Police Service. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cook Islands» with its dependency tre
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# Cook Islands, sentence 7

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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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Like most members of the Pacific Islands Forum, the country has no armed forces, but the Cook Islands Police Service owns a Guardian Class Patrol Boat,, provided by Australia, for policing its waters.

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**Who acts:** country, Police Service · **What happens:** have, own, provide, police · **To what, where:** armed forces, Class Patrol Boat, waters

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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 (country, Police Service), 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:7
# text = Like most members of the Pacific Islands Forum, the country has no armed forces, but the Cook Islands Police Service owns a Guardian Class Patrol Boat,, provided by Australia, for policing its waters.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	Forum	Forum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
14	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	compound	_	_
21	Police	Police	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	Guardian	guardian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Class	Class	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	Patrol	Patrol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Boat	Boat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,,	,,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	policing	police	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the country | no armed forces |  |  |  | like most members of the Islands Forum | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient |
| 2 | **own** | present | the Police Service | a Class Patrol Boat |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **provide** | participle |  | a Class Patrol Boat *not said here* |  |  |  | by Australia | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **police** | gerund | the Police Service *not said here* | Service's waters |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Beneficiary |

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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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