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title: Fijians constructed large, elegant watercraft, with rigged sails cal… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: Fijians constructed large, elegant watercraft, with rigged sails called drua and exported some to Tonga. Who acts: Fijians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Fiji» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Fiji, sentence 42

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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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Fijians constructed large, elegant watercraft, with rigged sails called drua and exported some to Tonga.

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**Who acts:** Fijians · **What happens:** construct, rig, call, export · **To what, where:** large elegant watercraft, rigged sails, some, Tonga · **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 (Fijians), 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:42
# text = Fijians constructed large, elegant watercraft, with rigged sails called drua and exported some to Tonga.
1	Fijians	fijian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	constructed	construct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	watercraft	watercraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	rigged	rig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	drua	drua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	exported	export	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Tonga	Tonga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **construct** | past | Fijians | large elegant watercraft |  |  |  | with rigged sails | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent watercraft=Patient with sail=Instrument |
| 2 | **rig** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | rigged sails *not said here* |  |  |  | drua *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **export** | past | Fijians *not said here* | some | Tonga |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme to tonga=Destination |

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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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