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title: Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Parliamen… — Cook Islands · tree and pragmatics
description: Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Parliament of the Cook Islands. Who acts: Legislative power. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cook Islands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cook Islands, sentence 87

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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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Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Parliament of the Cook Islands.

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**Who acts:** Legislative power · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** government

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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 (Legislative power), 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:87
# text = Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Parliament of the Cook Islands.
1	Legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	vested	vested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc:preconj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Legislative power |  |  | the government and the Parliament of the Cook Islands |  | vested *property* | tree rules |

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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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