Tonga, sentence 190
From Wikipedia, «Tonga», 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 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots mainly targeted Chinese-owned businesses, leading to the emigration of several hundred Chinese so that only about 300 remain.
Who acts: 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots, 300 · What happens: target, own, lead, remain · To what, where: owned businesses
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tonga». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (2006 Nukuʻalofa riots, 300), 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 | 4 riots | det |
| 2 | 2006 | 2006 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 riots | nummod |
| 3 | Nukuʻalofa | Nukuʻalofa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 riots | compound |
| 4 | riots | riot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 targeted | nsubj |
| 5 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 6 targeted | advmod |
| 6 | targeted | target | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 owned | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Chinese | punct |
| 9 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 businesses | amod |
| 10 | businesses | business | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 targeted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leading | punct |
| 12 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 targeted | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 emigration | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 emigration | det |
| 15 | emigration | emigration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leading | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hundred | case |
| 17 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hundred | amod |
| 18 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 emigration | nmod |
| 19 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 emigration | amod |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 remain | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 300 | advmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 300 | advmod |
| 24 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 remain | nsubj |
| 25 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 leading | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 targeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | target | past | the 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots | owned businesses | mainly property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme | |||
| 2 | own | participle | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | the 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots not said here | to the emigration of several hundred | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to emigration=Patient | ||||
| 4 | remain | present | 300 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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