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title: The stories about Roy Mata come from local oral tradition and are co… — Vanuatu · tree and pragmatics
description: The stories about Roy Mata come from local oral tradition and are consistent with centuries-old evidence uncovered at archaeological sites. Who acts: stories. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vanuatu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vanuatu, sentence 29

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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 stories about Roy Mata come from local oral tradition and are consistent with centuries-old evidence uncovered at archaeological sites.

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**Who acts:** stories · **What happens:** come, be, uncover · **To what, where:** local oral tradition, old evidence, archaeological sites

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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 (stories), 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:29
# text = The stories about Roy Mata come from local oral tradition and are consistent with centuries-old evidence uncovered at archaeological sites.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Roy	Roy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Mata	Mata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	uncovered	uncover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	archaeological	archaeological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sites	site	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the stories about Roy |  |  | local oral tradition |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tradition=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | the stories about Roy *not said here* |  |  |  | century | consistent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **uncover** | participle |  | old evidence *not said here* |  | archaeological sites |  |  | 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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