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title: The modified name was put forward by a subcommittee on national symb… — Vanuatu · tree and pragmatics
description: The modified name was put forward by a subcommittee on national symbols, which felt that Vanuaaku was too closely associated with the VP, and has been credited to Tom Tipolomata of Tongoa. Who acts: subcommittee, national symbols. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vanuatu» with its dependency tree and prag
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# Vanuatu, sentence 19

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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 modified name was put forward by a subcommittee on national symbols, which felt that Vanuaaku was too closely associated with the VP, and has been credited to Tom Tipolomata of Tongoa.

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**Who acts:** subcommittee, national symbols · **What happens:** put forward, feel, associate, credit · **To what, where:** modified name, national symbols, Vanuaaku, Tom

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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 (subcommittee, national symbols), 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:19
# text = The modified name was put forward by a subcommittee on national symbols, which felt that Vanuaaku was too closely associated with the VP, and has been credited to Tom Tipolomata of Tongoa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	modified	modified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	subcommittee	subcommittee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	symbols	symbol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	Vanuaaku	Vanuaaku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	VP	vp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	credited	credit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	Tipolomata	Tipolomata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Tongoa	Tongoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put forward** | past · passive | a subcommittee | the modified name |  | national symbols |  | forward *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on symbol=Destination |
| 2 | **feel** | past | national symbols |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **associate** | past · passive |  | Vanuaaku |  |  |  | with the VP; closely *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with vp=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **credit** | present · perfect · passive | a subcommittee *not said here* |  | Tom of Tongoa |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to tom=Recipient |

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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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