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title: In June 1871, George Austin Woods, an ex-lieutenant of the Royal Nav… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: In June 1871, George Austin Woods, an ex-lieutenant of the Royal Navy, managed to influence Cakobau and organise a group of like-minded settlers and chiefs into forming a governing administration. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Fiji» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Fiji, sentence 132

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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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In June 1871, George Austin Woods, an ex-lieutenant of the Royal Navy, managed to influence Cakobau and organise a group of like-minded settlers and chiefs into forming a governing administration.

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**What happens:** manage, influence, organise, form, govern · **To what, where:** Cakobau, group, governing administration

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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: 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:132
# text = In June 1871, George Austin Woods, an ex-lieutenant of the Royal Navy, managed to influence Cakobau and organise a group of like-minded settlers and chiefs into forming a governing administration.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
3	1871	1871	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	Austin	Austin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Woods	Woods	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ex-lieutenant	ex-lieutenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Navy	Navy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	influence	influence	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	Cakobau	Cakobau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	organise	organise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	governing	govern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	amod	_	_
35	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | past |  |  |  |  | june |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **influence** | to-infinitive |  | Cakobau |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cakobau=Patient |
| 3 | **organise** | infinitive |  | a group of minded settlers and chiefs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** | gerund |  | a governing administration |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location administration=Theme |
| 5 | **govern** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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