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title: The surrender was accepted by Brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represe… — Nauru · tree and pragmatics
description: The surrender was accepted by Brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represented Lieutenant General Vernon Sturdee, the commander of the First Australian Army, aboard the warship HMAS Diamantina. Who acts: Brigadier. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nauru» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nauru, sentence 57

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From Wikipedia, [«Nauru»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru), 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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The surrender was accepted by Brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represented Lieutenant General Vernon Sturdee, the commander of the First Australian Army, aboard the warship HMAS Diamantina.

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**Who acts:** Brigadier · **What happens:** accept, represent · **To what, where:** surrender, Vernon

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nauru». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brigadier), 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:Nauru:57
# text = The surrender was accepted by Brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represented Lieutenant General Vernon Sturdee, the commander of the First Australian Army, aboard the warship HMAS Diamantina.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Brigadier	Brigadier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
7	J.	J.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	R.	R.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	Stevenson	Stevenson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	represented	represent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Lieutenant	Lieutenant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Vernon	Vernon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	Sturdee	Sturdee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
23	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Army	Army	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	aboard	aboard	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	warship	warship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
29	HMAS	HMAS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
30	Diamantina	Diamantina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past · passive | Brigadier | the surrender |  |  |  | the warship *parataxis* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **represent** | past | Brigadier | Vernon  Lieutenant General |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot vernon=Theme |

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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, «Nauru», 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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