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title: Edward Natapei of the VP became prime minister in 2001 and went on t… — Vanuatu · tree and pragmatics
description: Edward Natapei of the VP became prime minister in 2001 and went on to win the 2002 Vanuatuan general election. Who acts: Edward Natapei. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vanuatu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vanuatu, sentence 174

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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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Edward Natapei of the VP became prime minister in 2001 and went on to win the 2002 Vanuatuan general election.

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**Who acts:** Edward Natapei · **What happens:** become, go on, win · **To what, where:** prime minister, 2001, 2002 Vanuatuan general election

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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 (Edward Natapei), 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:174
# text = Edward Natapei of the VP became prime minister in 2001 and went on to win the 2002 Vanuatuan general election.
1	Edward	Edward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Natapei	Natapei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	VP	vp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	2002	2002	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
18	Vanuatuan	Vanuatuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Edward Natapei of the VP | prime minister |  |  |  | in 2001 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2001=Result |
| 2 | **go on** | past | Edward Natapei of the VP *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **win** | to-infinitive | Edward Natapei of the VP *not said here* | the 2002 Vanuatuan general election |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality |

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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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