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title: Mataʻafa's FAST party narrowly won the election, ending the rule of… — Samoa · tree and pragmatics
description: Mataʻafa's FAST party narrowly won the election, ending the rule of long-term Prime Minister Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi of the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP), although the constitutional crisis complicated and delayed this. Who acts: FAST party, long term. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Samoa»
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# Samoa, sentence 134

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From Wikipedia, [«Samoa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa), 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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Mataʻafa's FAST party narrowly won the election, ending the rule of long-term Prime Minister Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi of the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP), although the constitutional crisis complicated and delayed this.

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**Who acts:** FAST party, long term · **What happens:** win, end, delay, rule · **To what, where:** election, rule, this

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Samoa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FAST party, long term), 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:Samoa:134
# text = Mataʻafa's FAST party narrowly won the election, ending the rule of long-term Prime Minister Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi of the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP), although the constitutional crisis complicated and delayed this.
1	Mataʻafa	Mataʻafa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	FAST	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	narrowly	narrowly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	18	compound	_	_
18	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Tuilaʻepa	Tuilaʻepa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	Saʻilele	Saʻilele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	Malielegaoi	Malielegaoi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	Human	Human	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	Rights	Rights	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Protection	Protection	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	HRPP	HRPP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	complicated	complicated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	delayed	delay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
39	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | Mataʻafa's FAST party | the election |  |  |  | narrowly *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality |
| 2 | **end** | gerund | Mataʻafa's FAST party *not said here* | the rule of long term |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rule=Eventuality |
| 3 | **delay** | past | Mataʻafa's FAST party *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent this=Source |
| 4 | **rule** |  | long term |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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, «Samoa», 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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