Nukuʻalofa, sentence 15
From Wikipedia, «Nukuʻalofa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
George Vason wrote of their arrival that:
Who acts: George, canoes · What happens: write, arrive · To what, where: arrival
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nukuʻalofa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George, canoes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | Vason | Vason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 George | flat |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 arrival | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 arrival | dep |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | George | canoes's arrival that | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | canoes = canoe | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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