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title: The Vietnamese community has declined from 10% of Vanuatu's populati… — Vanuatu · tree and pragmatics
description: The Vietnamese community has declined from 10% of Vanuatu's population in 1929 to about 0.3% (or 1,000 individuals) in 2017. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vanuatu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vanuatu, sentence 375

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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 Vietnamese community has declined from 10% of Vanuatu's population in 1929 to about 0.3% (or 1,000 individuals) in 2017.

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**What happens:** decline · **To what, where:** Vietnamese community

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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:375
# text = The Vietnamese community has declined from 10% of Vanuatu's population in 1929 to about 0.3% (or 1,000 individuals) in 2017.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Vietnamese	Vietnamese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	declined	decline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Vanuatu	Vanuatu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1929	1929	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	0.3	0.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	individuals	individual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decline** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Vietnamese community |  |  |  | in 2017; in 1929 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent from %=Initial\_State in 1929=Attribute to %=Result |

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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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