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title: With the demand for land high, the white planters started to push in… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: With the demand for land high, the white planters started to push into the hilly interior of Viti Levu. Who acts: white planters. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Fiji» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Fiji, sentence 118

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From Wikipedia, [«Fiji»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji), 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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With the demand for land high, the white planters started to push into the hilly interior of Viti Levu.

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**Who acts:** white planters · **What happens:** start, push · **To what, where:** hilly interior

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Fiji». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white planters), 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:Fiji:118
# text = With the demand for land high, the white planters started to push into the hilly interior of Viti Levu.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	planters	planter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	hilly	hilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Viti	Viti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	Levu	Levu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | the white planters |  |  |  |  | with the demand for land | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **push** | to-infinitive | the white planters *not said here* |  |  | the hilly interior of Viti |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into interior=Destination |

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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, «Fiji», 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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