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title: In recent decades, the Cook Islands has adopted an increasingly asse… — Cook Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: In recent decades, the Cook Islands has adopted an increasingly assertive and distinct foreign policy, and a Cook Islander, Henry Puna, served as Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum from 2021 to 2024. Who acts: Cook Islander. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cook Islands» with its dependency tr
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# Cook Islands, sentence 8

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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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In recent decades, the Cook Islands has adopted an increasingly assertive and distinct foreign policy, and a Cook Islander, Henry Puna, served as Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum from 2021 to 2024.

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**Who acts:** Cook Islander · **What happens:** adopt, serve · **To what, where:** Cook Islands, 2021

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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 Islander), 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:8
# text = In recent decades, the Cook Islands has adopted an increasingly assertive and distinct foreign policy, and a Cook Islander, Henry Puna, served as Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum from 2021 to 2024.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	increasingly	increasingly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	assertive	assertive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Islander	Islander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
26	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Secretary	Secretary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	compound	_	_
34	Forum	Forum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adopt** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Cook Islands |  |  | decade | a assertive foreign policy *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme policy=Attribute |
| 2 | **serve** | past | a Cook Islander |  |  | 2021 to 2024 |  | as Secretary General of the Islands Forum | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as general=Attribute |

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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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