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title: He told his followers that if they returned to traditional ways and… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: He told his followers that if they returned to traditional ways and worshipped traditional deities such as Degei and Rokola, their current condition would be transformed, with the whites and their puppet Fijian chiefs being subservient to them. Who acts: Navosavakandua, movements, traditional deitie
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# Fiji, sentence 264

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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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He told his followers that if they returned to traditional ways and worshipped traditional deities such as Degei and Rokola, their current condition would be transformed, with the whites and their puppet Fijian chiefs being subservient to them.

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**Who acts:** Navosavakandua, movements, traditional deities, puppet Fijian chiefs · **What happens:** tell, return, worshipp, transform, be, condition · **To what, where:** followers, traditional deities, current condition, subservient, movements · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Navosavakandua, movements, traditional deities, puppet Fijian chiefs), 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:264
# text = He told his followers that if they returned to traditional ways and worshipped traditional deities such as Degei and Rokola, their current condition would be transformed, with the whites and their puppet Fijian chiefs being subservient to them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	worshipped	worshipp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	deities	deity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	Degei	Degei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Rokola	Rokola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	whites	white	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
34	puppet	puppet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	Fijian	fijian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	cop	_	_
38	subservient	subservient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Navosavakandua |  | Navosavakandua's followers |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent follower=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **return** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | movements *= movement* |  |  |  |  | to traditional ways *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to way=Result |
| 3 | **worshipp** | past | Navosavakandua *not said here* | traditional deities |  |  |  | such Degei and Rokola | tree rules |
| 4 | **transform** | would · passive | traditional deities *not said here* | movements's current condition |  |  |  | with the whites and movements's subservient | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | gerund | puppet Fijian chiefs | movements's subservient | movements *= movement* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **condition** |  | movements *= movement* |  |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state 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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