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title: The first recorded visit was by the Rose in February 1804, and the l… — Vanuatu · tree and pragmatics
description: The first recorded visit was by the Rose in February 1804, and the last known visit by the New Bedford ship John and Winthrop in 1887. Who acts: first recorded visit, Bedford ship. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vanuatu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vanuatu, sentence 64

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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 first recorded visit was by the Rose in February 1804, and the last known visit by the New Bedford ship John and Winthrop in 1887.

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**Who acts:** first recorded visit, Bedford ship · **What happens:** record, be, know, visit

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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 (first recorded visit, Bedford ship), 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:64
# text = The first recorded visit was by the Rose in February 1804, and the last known visit by the New Bedford ship John and Winthrop in 1887.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	1804	1804	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Bedford	Bedford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Winthrop	Winthrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	1887	1887	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the first recorded visit |  |  |  |  | by the Rose and February  1804; 1887  the last known visit by the Bedford ship *list* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **visit** |  | the Bedford ship |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: by=agent |

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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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