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title: A skirmish between the government's troops and the white settlers' b… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: A skirmish between the government's troops and the white settlers' brigade was only prevented by the intervention of Captain William Cox Chapman of, who detained the settlers' leaders, forcing the group to disband. Who acts: intervention, Cox Chapman. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Fiji» with its depend
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# Fiji, sentence 156

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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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A skirmish between the government's troops and the white settlers' brigade was only prevented by the intervention of Captain William Cox Chapman of, who detained the settlers' leaders, forcing the group to disband.

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**Who acts:** intervention, Cox Chapman · **What happens:** prevent, detain, force, disband, intervene · **To what, where:** skirmish, leaders, group

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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 (intervention, Cox Chapman), 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:156
# text = A skirmish between the government's troops and the white settlers' brigade was only prevented by the intervention of Captain William Cox Chapman of, who detained the settlers' leaders, forcing the group to disband.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skirmish	skirmish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	brigade	brigade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	intervention	intervention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:desc	_	_
22	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	Cox	Cox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Chapman	Chapman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	detained	detain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	forcing	force	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	disband	disband	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | past · passive | the intervention of Cox Chapman  William  Captain | a skirmish between the government's troops and the white settlers's brigade |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme |
| 2 | **detain** | past | Cox Chapman  William  Captain | the settlers's leaders |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme |
| 3 | **force** | gerund | Cox Chapman  William  Captain *not said here* | the group |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Recipient |
| 4 | **disband** | to-infinitive | Cox Chapman  William  Captain *not said here* | the group *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **intervene** |  | Cox Chapman  William  Captain |  |  |  |  |  | nom intervention «act intransitive»: of=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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