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title: Samoa's road network consists mainly of paved highways connecting ke… — Samoa · tree and pragmatics
description: Samoa's road network consists mainly of paved highways connecting key towns and villages on both Upolu and Savai'i islands. Who acts: road network, paved highways. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Samoa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Samoa, sentence 273

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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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Samoa's road network consists mainly of paved highways connecting key towns and villages on both Upolu and Savai'i islands.

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**Who acts:** road network, paved highways · **What happens:** consist, pave, connect · **To what, where:** key towns

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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 (road network, paved highways), 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:273
# text = Samoa's road network consists mainly of paved highways connecting key towns and villages on both Upolu and Savai'i islands.
1	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	highways	highway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	connecting	connect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
17	Upolu	Upolu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Savai'i	Savai'i	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | Samoa's road network |  |  |  |  | of paved highways; mainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **connect** | gerund | paved highways *not said here* | key towns and villages |  |  |  | on both Upolu islands | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent town=Patient on island=Co-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, «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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