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title: The chief medical officer in British Fiji, William MacGregor, also t… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: The chief medical officer in British Fiji, William MacGregor, also took part both in killing Kai Colo and tending to their wounded. Who acts: chief medical officer. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Fiji» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Fiji, sentence 240

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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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The chief medical officer in British Fiji, William MacGregor, also took part both in killing Kai Colo and tending to their wounded.

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**Who acts:** chief medical officer · **What happens:** take, kill, tend · **To what, where:** part, Kai Colo

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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 (chief medical officer), 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:240
# text = The chief medical officer in British Fiji, William MacGregor, also took part both in killing Kai Colo and tending to their wounded.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Fiji	Fiji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	MacGregor	MacGregor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	both	both	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Colo	Colo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	tending	tend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the chief medical officer in British Fiji and William | part |  |  |  | both *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | gerund | the chief medical officer in British Fiji and William *not said here* | Kai Colo |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colo=Theme |
| 3 | **tend** | gerund | the chief medical officer in British Fiji and William *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to coasts's wounded | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to wounded=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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