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title: On 23 September, Sir Hercules Robinson, soon to be appointed the Bri… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: On 23 September, Sir Hercules Robinson, soon to be appointed the British Governor of Fiji, arrived on HMS Dido and received Cakobau with a royal 21-gun salute. Who acts: British Governor, Hercules. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Fiji» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Fiji, sentence 202

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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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On 23 September, Sir Hercules Robinson, soon to be appointed the British Governor of Fiji, arrived on HMS Dido and received Cakobau with a royal 21-gun salute.

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**Who acts:** British Governor, Hercules · **What happens:** appoint, arrive, receive · **To what, where:** 23, Cakobau

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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 (British Governor, Hercules), 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:202
# text = On 23 September, Sir Hercules Robinson, soon to be appointed the British Governor of Fiji, arrived on HMS Dido and received Cakobau with a royal 21-gun salute.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
3	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
7	Robinson	Robinson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl:agent	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Fiji	Fiji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
19	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	HMS	HMS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Dido	Dido	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	Cakobau	Cakobau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
28	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
29	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	salute	salute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | to-infinitive · passive | the British Governor of Fiji |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | Hercules  Sir |  |  | 23  September |  | on HMS Dido | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | past | Hercules  Sir *not said here* | Cakobau |  |  |  | with a royal gun salute | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cakobau=Theme |

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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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