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title: The subsequent population turnover was strongly sex-biased, with evi… — Vanuatu · tree and pragmatics
description: The subsequent population turnover was strongly sex-biased, with evidence for repeated admixture involving Papuan-related men and women of Austronesian ancestry. Who acts: repeated admixture. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vanuatu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vanuatu, sentence 44

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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 subsequent population turnover was strongly sex-biased, with evidence for repeated admixture involving Papuan-related men and women of Austronesian ancestry.

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**Who acts:** repeated admixture · **What happens:** be, repeat, involve · **To what, where:** subsequent population turnover, Papuan related men

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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 (repeated admixture), 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:44
# text = The subsequent population turnover was strongly sex-biased, with evidence for repeated admixture involving Papuan-related men and women of Austronesian ancestry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	turnover	turnover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	biased	bias	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	admixture	admixture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	involving	involve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	Papuan	Papuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Austronesian	austronesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ancestry	ancestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · passive |  | the subsequent population turnover |  |  |  | with evidence for repeated admixture; sex *compound*; bias, strongly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **repeat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **involve** | gerund | repeated admixture *not said here* | Papuan related men of Austronesian ancestry and women |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |

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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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