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title: These settlers' expectation of dominating by force led them to form… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: These settlers' expectation of dominating by force led them to form several aggressive, racially motivated groups, such as the British Subjects Mutual Protection Society. Who acts: expectation, settlers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Fiji» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Fiji, sentence 136

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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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These settlers' expectation of dominating by force led them to form several aggressive, racially motivated groups, such as the British Subjects Mutual Protection Society.

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**Who acts:** expectation, settlers · **What happens:** dominate, lead, form, motivate, expect · **To what, where:** settlers, several aggressive motivated groups

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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 (expectation, settlers), 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:136
# text = These settlers' expectation of dominating by force led them to form several aggressive, racially motivated groups, such as the British Subjects Mutual Protection Society.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	expectation	expectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	dominating	dominate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
14	aggressive	aggressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	racially	racially	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	motivated	motivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Subjects	Subject	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
25	Mutual	Mutual	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Protection	Protection	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dominate** | gerund | this settlers's expectation *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by force | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past | this settlers's expectation | settlers *= settler* |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **form** | to-infinitive | this settlers's expectation *not said here* | several aggressive motivated groups |  |  |  | such the British Subjects  Protection Society | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location group=Theme |
| 4 | **motivate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | racially *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **expect** |  | this settlers |  |  |  |  |  | nom expectation «cognition transitive»: poss=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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