---
title: Port Vila is one of the eighteen constituencies in Vanuatu and elect… — Port Vila · tree and pragmatics
description: Port Vila is one of the eighteen constituencies in Vanuatu and elects five Members of Parliament. Who acts: Port. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Vila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_Vila/118/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Port Vila](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_Vila/) / 118

# Port Vila, sentence 118

<!-- div src -->

From Wikipedia, [«Port Vila»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Vila), 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Port Vila is one of the eighteen constituencies in Vanuatu and elects five Members of Parliament.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Port · **What happens:** be, elect · **To what, where:** one, five Members

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port Vila». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Port), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:Port_Vila:118
# text = Port Vila is one of the eighteen constituencies in Vanuatu and elects five Members of Parliament.
1	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Vila	Vila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	constituencies	constituency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Vanuatu	Vanuatu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	elects	elect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	Members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Port | one |  |  |  | of the eighteen constituencies in Vanuatu | tree rules |
| 2 | **elect** | present | Port *not said here* | five Members of Parliament |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Port Vila», 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_Vila/117/)
- next →: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_Vila/119/)
- ↑ back to [Port Vila](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_Vila/)