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title: From Davies' perspective, the Tahitians were placed under detention… — Nukuʻalofa · tree and pragmatics
description: From Davies' perspective, the Tahitians were placed under detention at Tongatapu: "The chief called Tupou would not let them proceed. Who acts: chief, Tahitians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nukuʻalofa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nukuʻalofa, sentence 26

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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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From Davies' perspective, the Tahitians were placed under detention at Tongatapu: "The chief called Tupou would not let them proceed.

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**Who acts:** chief, Tahitians · **What happens:** place, call, not let, proceed · **To what, where:** Tahitians, perspective, chief · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (chief, Tahitians), 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:26
# text = From Davies' perspective, the Tahitians were placed under detention at Tongatapu: "The chief called Tupou would not let them proceed.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Davies	davy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	perspective	perspective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Tahitians	Tahitian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	detention	detention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Tongatapu	Tongatapu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	Tupou	Tupou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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