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title: E. Pratt of the Royal Engineers was appointed Surveyor-General in 18… — Suva · tree and pragmatics
description: E. Pratt of the Royal Engineers was appointed Surveyor-General in 1875 and designed the new capital in Suva, assisted by W. Stephens and Colonel R. W. Stewart. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Suva» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Suva, sentence 17

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From Wikipedia, [«Suva»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suva), 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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E. Pratt of the Royal Engineers was appointed Surveyor-General in 1875 and designed the new capital in Suva, assisted by W. Stephens and Colonel R. W. Stewart.

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**What happens:** appoint, design, assist · **To what, where:** E. Pratt, 1875, new capital, Suva

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Suva». 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:Suva:17
# text = E. Pratt of the Royal Engineers was appointed Surveyor-General in 1875 and designed the new capital in Suva, assisted by W. Stephens and Colonel R. W. Stewart.
1	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Pratt	Pratt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Engineers	Engineer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	Surveyor	Surveyor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	General	General	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1875	1875	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	designed	design	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Suva	Suva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	assisted	assist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Stephens	stephen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	Colonel	Colonel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	R.	R.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
29	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	Stewart	Stewart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | past · passive |  | E. Pratt of the Royal Engineers |  | 1875 |  | Surveyor *xcomp*; Colonel R. *conj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **design** | past |  | the new capital |  | Suva |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Result |
| 3 | **assist** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by W. Stephens | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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, «Suva», 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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