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title: The movement gained a large following, prompting a crackdown by the… — Vanuatu · tree and pragmatics
description: The movement gained a large following, prompting a crackdown by the authorities, with Buluk and Stevens being arrested in 1967. Who acts: movement. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vanuatu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vanuatu, sentence 122

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From Wikipedia, [«Vanuatu»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu), 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 movement gained a large following, prompting a crackdown by the authorities, with Buluk and Stevens being arrested in 1967.

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**Who acts:** movement · **What happens:** gain, follow, prompt, arrest · **To what, where:** crackdown, Buluk, 1967

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vanuatu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (movement), 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:Vanuatu:122
# text = The movement gained a large following, prompting a crackdown by the authorities, with Buluk and Stevens being arrested in 1967.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	prompting	prompt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crackdown	crackdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Buluk	Buluk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Stevens	Stevens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1967	1967	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past | the movement |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | the movement *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **prompt** | gerund | the movement *not said here* | a crackdown |  |  |  | by the authorities with Buluk and Stevens | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition crackdown=Patient |
| 4 | **arrest** | gerund · passive |  | Buluk and Stevens *not said here* |  | 1967 |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» |

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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, «Vanuatu», 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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