Samoa, sentence 69
From Wikipedia, «Samoa», 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 1908, when the non-violent Mau a Pule resistance movement arose, Solf did not hesitate to banish the Mau leader Lauaki Namulau'ulu Mamoe to Saipan in the German Northern Mariana Islands.
Who acts: non-violent Mau, Solf · What happens: arise, not hesitate, banish · To what, where: 1908, Mau leader, Saipan, Mariana Islands
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Samoa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (non-violent Mau, Solf), 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 1908 | case |
| 2 | 1908 | 1908 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 arose | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1908 | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 arose | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mau | det |
| 6 | non-violent | non-violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Mau | amod |
| 7 | Mau | Mau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 arose | nsubj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 movement | det |
| 9 | Pule | Pule | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 movement | compound |
| 10 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 movement | compound |
| 11 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Mau | appos |
| 12 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hesitate | punct |
| 14 | Solf | Solf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hesitate | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hesitate | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 hesitate | advmod |
| 17 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 arose | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 banish | mark |
| 19 | banish | banish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hesitate | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 leader | det |
| 21 | Mau | Mau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 leader | compound |
| 22 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 banish | obj |
| 23 | Lauaki | Lauaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 leader | appos |
| 24 | Namulau'ulu | Namulau'ulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Lauaki | flat |
| 25 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Lauaki | flat |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Saipan | case |
| 27 | Saipan | Saipan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 banish | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Islands | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Islands | det |
| 30 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Mariana | compound |
| 31 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Mariana | amod |
| 32 | Mariana | Mariana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Islands | compound |
| 33 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 banish | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the non-violent Mau | 1908 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1908=Location | ||||
| 2 | not hesitate | past · do-support | Solf | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | banish | to-infinitive | Solf not said here | the Mau leader | Saipan | the Mariana Islands | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leader=Theme to saipan=Destination |
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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