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title: It was used in the proclamation of independence made by the Vanuaaku… — Vanuatu · tree and pragmatics
description: It was used in the proclamation of independence made by the Vanuaaku People's Provisional Government in 1978. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vanuatu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vanuatu, sentence 17

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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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It was used in the proclamation of independence made by the Vanuaaku People's Provisional Government in 1978.

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**What happens:** use, make, proclaim · **To what, where:** pro-independence, proclamation, 1978, independence

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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: 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:17
# text = It was used in the proclamation of independence made by the Vanuaaku People's Provisional Government in 1978.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Vanuaaku	Vanuaaku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	People	People	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	Provisional	provisional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1978	1978	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | pro-independence |  | the proclamation of independence |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the proclamation of independence *not said here* |  | 1978 |  | the Vanuaaku People's Provisional Government *obl:agent* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **proclaim** |  |  | independence |  |  |  |  | nom proclamation «communication transitive»: of=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, «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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