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title: Fijians also developed a distinctive style of village architecture,… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: Fijians also developed a distinctive style of village architecture, consisting of communal and individual bure and vale housing, and an advanced system of ramparts and moats that were usually constructed around the more important settlements. Who acts: Fijians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Fiji» with 
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# Fiji, sentence 43

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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 also developed a distinctive style of village architecture, consisting of communal and individual bure and vale housing, and an advanced system of ramparts and moats that were usually constructed around the more important settlements.

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**Who acts:** Fijians · **What happens:** develop, consist, construct · **To what, where:** distinctive style, advanced system, important settlements

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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:43
# text = Fijians also developed a distinctive style of village architecture, consisting of communal and individual bure and vale housing, and an advanced system of ramparts and moats that were usually constructed around the more important settlements.
1	Fijians	fijian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	developed	develop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	distinctive	distinctive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	consisting	consist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	communal	communal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	individual	individual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	bure	bure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	housing	housing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	advanced	advanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	ramparts	rampart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	moats	moat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
33	around	around	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
36	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	settlements	settlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **develop** | past | Fijians | a distinctive style of village architecture |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Product |
| 2 | **consist** | gerund | Fijians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of communal bure and vale housing | tree rules |
| 3 | **construct** | past · passive |  | a advanced system of ramparts and moats |  | the important settlements |  | that *obj*; usually *property* | tree rules |

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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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