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title: The population is 96% Samoans, 2% dual Samoan New Zealanders and 1.9… — Samoa · tree and pragmatics
description: The population is 96% Samoans, 2% dual Samoan New Zealanders and 1.9% other, according to a 2011 estimate in the CIA World Factbook. Who acts: population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Samoa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Samoa, sentence 286

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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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The population is 96% Samoans, 2% dual Samoan New Zealanders and 1.9% other, according to a 2011 estimate in the CIA World Factbook.

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**Who acts:** population · **What happens:** be, accord · **To what, where:** % Samoans

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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 (population), 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:286
# text = The population is 96% Samoans, 2% dual Samoan New Zealanders and 1.9% other, according to a 2011 estimate in the CIA World Factbook.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	96	96	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Samoans	Samoan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	dual	dual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	Samoan	Samoan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
13	Zealanders	Zealander	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	1.9	1.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	case	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	estimate	estimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	CIA	CIA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Factbook	Factbook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the population | % Samoans and dual Samoan New Zealanders |  |  |  | dual Samoan New Zealanders *conj*; a 2011 estimate in the CIA World Factbook *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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