Tonga, sentence 31
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 first of these on record is the Ann and Hope, which was reported to have been seen among the islands of Tonga in June 1799.
Who acts: first · What happens: be, report, see · To what, where: Ann Hope
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 (first), 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 | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 Hope | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 these | case |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 first | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 record | case |
| 6 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 first | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Hope | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hope | det |
| 9 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Hope | compound |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Hope | cc |
| 11 | Hope | Hope | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reported | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reported | aux:pass |
| 15 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Hope | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 seen | mark |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seen | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 reported | xcomp |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 islands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 islands | det |
| 22 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 seen | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Tonga | case |
| 24 | Tonga | Tonga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 islands | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 June | case |
| 26 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | obl |
| 27 | 1799 | 1799 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 June | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the first of these on record | the Ann Hope | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | report | past · passive | the Ann Hope | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | june | among the islands of Tonga | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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