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title: The new government was the first time the Green Confederation was in… — Vanuatu · tree and pragmatics
description: The new government was the first time the Green Confederation was in power, and the new prime minister, Moana Carcasses Kalosil, was the first non-Ni-Vanuatu to hold the position (Kalosil is of mixed French-Tahitian ancestry and a naturalised Vanuatu citizen). Who acts: new government, Moana, first 
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# Vanuatu, sentence 187

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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 new government was the first time the Green Confederation was in power, and the new prime minister, Moana Carcasses Kalosil, was the first non-Ni-Vanuatu to hold the position (Kalosil is of mixed French-Tahitian ancestry and a naturalised Vanuatu citizen).

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**Who acts:** new government, Moana, first non-Ni-Vanuatu, Kalosil · **What happens:** be, carcass, mix, naturalis · **To what, where:** power, Kalosil

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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 (new government, Moana, first non-Ni-Vanuatu, Kalosil), 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:187
# text = The new government was the first time the Green Confederation was in power, and the new prime minister, Moana Carcasses Kalosil, was the first non-Ni-Vanuatu to hold the position (Kalosil is of mixed French-Tahitian ancestry and a naturalised Vanuatu citizen).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Green	Green	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Confederation	Confederation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Moana	Moana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	Carcasses	carcass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	Kalosil	Kalosil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
28	non-Ni-Vanuatu	non-ni-vanuatu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Kalosil	Kalosil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
38	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Tahitian	tahitian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	ancestry	ancestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	naturalised	naturalis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
45	Vanuatu	Vanuatu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	citizen	citizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the new government |  |  | power and the new prime minister |  | the Green Confederation *nsubj*; the new prime minister *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carcass** | present | Moana | Kalosil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the first non-Ni-Vanuatu |  |  |  |  | the position *obj*; hold *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | Kalosil |  |  |  |  | of mixed Tahitian ancestry and a naturalised Vanuatu citizen; a naturalised Vanuatu citizen *conj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **naturalis** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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