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title: This was followed by an eight-year civil war, during which each of t… — Samoa · tree and pragmatics
description: This was followed by an eight-year civil war, during which each of the three powers supplied arms, training, and, in some cases, combat troops to the warring Samoan parties. Who acts: year civil war. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Samoa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Samoa, sentence 54

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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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This was followed by an eight-year civil war, during which each of the three powers supplied arms, training, and, in some cases, combat troops to the warring Samoan parties.

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**Who acts:** year civil war · **What happens:** follow, supply, war · **To what, where:** 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 (year civil war), 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:54
# text = This was followed by an eight-year civil war, during which each of the three powers supplied arms, training, and, in some cases, combat troops to the warring Samoan parties.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	28	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	warring	war	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
35	Samoan	samoan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past · passive | a year civil war | This |  |  |  | some cases  combat troops to the warring Samoan parties *parataxis* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **supply** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **war** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: 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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