Nukuʻalofa, sentence 26
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.
From Davies' perspective, the Tahitians were placed under detention at Tongatapu: "The chief called Tupou would not let them proceed.
Who acts: chief, Tahitians · What happens: place, call, not let, proceed · To what, where: Tahitians, perspective, chief · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (chief, Tahitians), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 perspective | case |
| 2 | Davies | davy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 perspective | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 Davies | case |
| 4 | perspective | perspective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 perspective | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tahitians | det |
| 7 | Tahitians | Tahitian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 placed | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 placed | aux:pass |
| 9 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 detention | case |
| 11 | detention | detention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Tongatapu | case |
| 13 | Tongatapu | Tongatapu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chief | det |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 let | nsubj |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 chief | acl |
| 19 | Tupou | Tupou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 let | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 let | advmod |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 placed | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | the Tahitians | Davies's perspective | under detention; at Tongatapu | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under detention=Destination | |||
| 2 | call in a quote | participle | the chief not said here | Tupou xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not let in a quote | would | the chief | Tahitians = tahitian | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | proceed in a quote | infinitive | Tahitians = tahitian not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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