Nukuʻalofa, sentence 29
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.
The persecution suffered by Christians in Hihifo and Hahake forced a lot of people to seek refuge in Nukuʻalofa.
Who acts: persecution, lot · What happens: suffer, force, seek · To what, where: persecution, Hihifo, lot, refuge, Nukuʻalofa
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 (persecution, lot), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 persecution | det |
| 2 | persecution | persecution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forced | nsubj |
| 3 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 persecution | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Christians | case |
| 5 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 suffered | obl:agent |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Hihifo | case |
| 7 | Hihifo | Hihifo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 suffered | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Hahake | cc |
| 9 | Hahake | Hahake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hihifo | conj |
| 10 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lot | det |
| 12 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forced | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lot | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 seek | mark |
| 16 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 forced | xcomp |
| 17 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seek | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Nukuʻalofa | case |
| 19 | Nukuʻalofa | Nukuʻalofa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 seek | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | participle | the persecution not said here | Hihifo and Hahake | Christians obl:agent | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | force | past | the persecution | a lot of people | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lot=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | a lot of people not said here | refuge | Nukuʻalofa | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme in nukuʻalofa=Location |
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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