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title: In 1871, the killing of two settlers near the Ba River in the northw… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1871, the killing of two settlers near the Ba River in the northwest of the island prompted a large punitive expedition of white farmers, imported slave labourers, and coastal Fijians to be organised. Who acts: killing. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Fiji» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Fiji, sentence 141

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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 1871, the killing of two settlers near the Ba River in the northwest of the island prompted a large punitive expedition of white farmers, imported slave labourers, and coastal Fijians to be organised.

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**Who acts:** killing · **What happens:** prompt, import, organise, kill · **To what, where:** large punitive expedition, 1871, two settlers

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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 (killing), 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:141
# text = In 1871, the killing of two settlers near the Ba River in the northwest of the island prompted a large punitive expedition of white farmers, imported slave labourers, and coastal Fijians to be organised.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1871	1871	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	killing	killing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Ba	Ba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	northwest	northwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	prompted	prompt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	punitive	punitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	imported	import	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
29	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	labourers	labourer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Fijians	Fijian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	organised	organise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prompt** | past | the killing of two settlers near the Ba River in the northwest of the island | a large punitive expedition of white farmers and imported slave labourers |  | 1871 |  | coastal Fijians *conj* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition expedition=Patient |
| 2 | **import** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **organise** | to-infinitive · passive | the killing of two settlers near the Ba River in the northwest of the island *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kill** |  |  | two settlers near the Ba River in the northwest of the island |  |  |  |  | nom killing «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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