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title: The paramount pāpā title of Ātua is the Tui Ātua. — Samoa · tree and pragmatics
description: The paramount pāpā title of Ātua is the Tui Ātua. Who acts: pāpā title. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Samoa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Samoa, sentence 169

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From Wikipedia, [«Samoa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa), 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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The paramount pāpā title of Ātua is the Tui Ātua.

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**Who acts:** pāpā title · **What happens:** be, title · **To what, where:** Tui Ātua, Ātua

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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 (pāpā title), 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:Samoa:169
# text = The paramount pāpā title of Ātua is the Tui Ātua.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	paramount	paramount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pāpā	pāpā	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ātua	Ātua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Tui	Tui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Ātua	Ātua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the pāpā title of Ātua | the Tui Ātua |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **title** |  |  | Ātua |  |  |  |  | nom title «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, «Samoa», 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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