Nukuʻalofa, sentence 92
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.
In addition to these regular services by shipping companies, private boat owners provide less regular services to smaller islands such as Nomuka and ʻEueiki.
Who acts: private boat owners, shipping companies · What happens: ship, provide, service · To what, where: regular services, smaller islands, addition
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 (private boat owners, shipping companies), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 addition | case |
| 2 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 provide | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 services | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 services | det |
| 5 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 services | amod |
| 6 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 addition | nmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 companies | case |
| 8 | shipping | ship | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 companies | amod |
| 9 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 services | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 addition | punct |
| 11 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 owners | amod |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 owners | compound |
| 13 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 provide | nsubj |
| 14 | provide | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 regular | advmod |
| 16 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 services | amod |
| 17 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 provide | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 islands | case |
| 19 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 islands | amod |
| 20 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 provide | obl |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 23 Nomuka | case |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 such | fixed |
| 23 | Nomuka | Nomuka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 islands | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ʻEueiki | cc |
| 25 | ʻEueiki | ʻeueiki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Nomuka | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 provide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ship | gerund | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | provide | present | private boat owners | regular services | smaller islands such Nomuka and ʻEueiki | addition to this regular services by shipping companies | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent service=Theme to island=Recipient | ||
| 3 | service | shipping companies | nom service «act transitive»: by=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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