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title: The Convention of 16 October 1887 established the Anglo-French Joint… — Vanuatu · tree and pragmatics
description: The Convention of 16 October 1887 established the Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission for the sole purpose of protecting French and British citizens, with no claim to jurisdiction over internal native affairs. Who acts: Convention, sole purpose. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vanuatu» with its dependenc
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# Vanuatu, sentence 85

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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 Convention of 16 October 1887 established the Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission for the sole purpose of protecting French and British citizens, with no claim to jurisdiction over internal native affairs.

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**Who acts:** Convention, sole purpose · **What happens:** establish, protect · **To what, where:** Joint Naval Commission, French citizens

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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 (Convention, sole purpose), 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:85
# text = The Convention of 16 October 1887 established the Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission for the sole purpose of protecting French and British citizens, with no claim to jurisdiction over internal native affairs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Convention	Convention	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	1887	1887	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
9	Anglo	Anglo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	Joint	Joint	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Naval	Naval	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Commission	Commission	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	jurisdiction	jurisdiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past | the Convention of 16  October  1887 | the Joint Naval Commission  Anglo French |  |  |  | for the sole purpose | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commission=Patient |
| 2 | **protect** | gerund | the sole purpose *not said here* |  | French citizens |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent citizen=Beneficiary |

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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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