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title: It was not until 1789, however, that the islands were charted and pl… — Fiji · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not until 1789, however, that the islands were charted and plotted, when William Bligh, the castaway captain of, passed Ovalau and sailed between the main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu en route to Batavia, in what is now Indonesia. Who acts: explorer. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Fiji» wi
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# Fiji, sentence 70

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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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It was not until 1789, however, that the islands were charted and plotted, when William Bligh, the castaway captain of, passed Ovalau and sailed between the main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu en route to Batavia, in what is now Indonesia.

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**Who acts:** explorer · **What happens:** not be, chart, plot, pass, sail, be · **To what, where:** islands, castaway captain, Ovalau, Indonesia

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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 (explorer), 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:70
# text = It was not until 1789, however, that the islands were charted and plotted, when William Bligh, the castaway captain of, passed Ovalau and sailed between the main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu en route to Batavia, in what is now Indonesia.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	until	until	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1789	1789	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	charted	chart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	plotted	plot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	conj	_	_
18	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
19	Bligh	Bligh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	castaway	castaway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
27	Ovalau	Ovalau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	iobj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
30	between	between	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Viti	Viti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	Levu	Levu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Vanua	Vanua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
39	Levu	Levu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Batavia	Batavia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	49	advmod	_	_
49	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | explorer |  |  |  | until 1789 |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chart** | past · passive |  | the islands |  |  |  | however *property* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **plot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pass** | participle |  | the castaway captain *not said here* | Ovalau |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ovalau=Trajectory |
| 5 | **sail** | past |  |  |  |  |  | between the main islands of Viti and Vanua; what *obl* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | Indonesia |  |  | now |  | 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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