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title: At the height of the labour trade, more than one-half the adult male… — Vanuatu · tree and pragmatics
description: At the height of the labour trade, more than one-half the adult male population of several of the islands worked abroad. Who acts: one, adult male population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vanuatu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vanuatu, sentence 68

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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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At the height of the labour trade, more than one-half the adult male population of several of the islands worked abroad.

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**Who acts:** one, adult male population · **What happens:** population, work

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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 (one, adult male population), 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:68
# text = At the height of the labour trade, more than one-half the adult male population of several of the islands worked abroad.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	11	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **population** |  | one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | past | half adult male population |  |  |  |  | at the height of the labour trade; abroad *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at height=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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