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title: Martin J, An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the sou… — Nukuʻalofa · tree and pragmatics
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# Nukuʻalofa, sentence 101

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From Wikipedia, [«Nukuʻalofa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukuʻalofa), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Martin J, An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the south pacific ocean. with an original grammar and vocabulary of their language.

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**What happens:** account · **To what, where:** Martin, natives

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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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Nukuʻalofa:101
# text = Martin J, An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the south pacific ocean. with an original grammar and vocabulary of their language.
1	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	J	J	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Tonga	Tonga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	south	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	pacific	pacific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	grammar	grammar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	vocabulary	vocabulary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **account** |  |  | the natives of the Tonga Islands |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Nukuʻalofa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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