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title: Former constitutions referred to citizens of Fiji as "Fiji Islanders… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: Former constitutions referred to citizens of Fiji as "Fiji Islanders", though the term Fiji nationals was used for official purposes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Fiji» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Fiji, sentence 500

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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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Former constitutions referred to citizens of Fiji as "Fiji Islanders", though the term Fiji nationals was used for official purposes.

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**What happens:** refer, use · **To what, where:** Former constitutions

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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:500
# text = Former constitutions referred to citizens of Fiji as "Fiji Islanders", though the term Fiji nationals was used for official purposes.
1	Former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	constitutions	constitution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Fiji	Fiji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Fiji	Fiji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Islanders	islander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Fiji	Fiji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	nationals	national	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | participle |  | Former constitutions and Fiji nationals *not said here* |  |  |  | to citizens of Fiji as Fiji Islanders | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to citizen=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **use** | past · passive |  | Former constitutions and Fiji nationals |  |  |  | for official purposes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for purpose=Eventuality |

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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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