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title: In the late 19th century, when the islands were known as the New Heb… — Port Vila · tree and pragmatics
description: In the late 19th century, when the islands were known as the New Hebrides, the British initially had the dominant European presence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Vila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Vila, sentence 17

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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.

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In the late 19th century, when the islands were known as the New Hebrides, the British initially had the dominant European presence.

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**What happens:** know, have · **To what, where:** islands, dominant European presence

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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: 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:Port_Vila:17
# text = In the late 19th century, when the islands were known as the New Hebrides, the British initially had the dominant European presence.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Hebrides	Hebrides	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
19	initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	dominant	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | the islands |  |  | century | as the New Hebrides | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as hebrides=Attribute |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | the dominant European presence |  |  |  | initially *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=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, «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.

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