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title: Kinship is determined through a child's lineage to a particular spir… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: Kinship is determined through a child's lineage to a particular spiritual leader, so that a clan is based on traditional customary ties as opposed to actual biological links. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Fiji» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Fiji, sentence 495

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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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Kinship is determined through a child's lineage to a particular spiritual leader, so that a clan is based on traditional customary ties as opposed to actual biological links.

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**What happens:** determine, base, oppose · **To what, where:** Kinship, lineage, clan, traditional customary ties

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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: 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:495
# text = Kinship is determined through a child's lineage to a particular spiritual leader, so that a clan is based on traditional customary ties as opposed to actual biological links.
1	Kinship	kinship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	lineage	lineage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	opposed	oppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	biological	biological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | present · passive |  | Kinship |  | a child's lineage |  | to a particular spiritual leader | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **base** | present · passive |  | a clan |  | traditional customary ties |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on tie=Source |
| 3 | **oppose** | participle |  | traditional customary ties *not said here* |  |  |  | to actual biological links | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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