Nukuʻalofa, sentence 51
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.
Maʻufanga is the area facing Pangaimotu, where James Cook anchored, and where Paulaho built him a house on the beach, about 500 m from the ship.
Who acts: Maʻufanga, area, James, Paulaho · What happens: be, face, anchor, build · To what, where: area, Pangaimotu, house, Maʻufanga, beach
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 (Maʻufanga, area, James, Paulaho), 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 | Maʻufanga | Maʻufanga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 area | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 area | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 area | det |
| 4 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 area | acl |
| 6 | Pangaimotu | Pangaimotu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 facing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 anchored | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 anchored | advmod |
| 9 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 anchored | nsubj |
| 10 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 James | flat |
| 11 | anchored | anchor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Pangaimotu | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 built | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 built | cc |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 built | advmod |
| 15 | Paulaho | Paulaho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 built | nsubj |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 area | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 built | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 beach | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beach | det |
| 22 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 m | punct |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 500 | advmod |
| 25 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 m | nummod |
| 26 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 beach | conj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 ship | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ship | det |
| 29 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 m | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 area | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Maʻufanga | the area | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | face | gerund | the area not said here | Pangaimotu | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pangaimotu=Destination | ||||
| 3 | anchor | past | James | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | build | past | Paulaho | a house | Maʻufanga | the beach and 500 m from the ship | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary house=Product |
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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