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title: In 1908, when the non-violent Mau a Pule resistance movement arose,… — Samoa · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1908, when the non-violent Mau a Pule resistance movement arose, Solf did not hesitate to banish the Mau leader Lauaki Namulau'ulu Mamoe to Saipan in the German Northern Mariana Islands. Who acts: non-violent Mau, Solf. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Samoa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Samoa, sentence 69

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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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In 1908, when the non-violent Mau a Pule resistance movement arose, Solf did not hesitate to banish the Mau leader Lauaki Namulau'ulu Mamoe to Saipan in the German Northern Mariana Islands.

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**Who acts:** non-violent Mau, Solf · **What happens:** arise, not hesitate, banish · **To what, where:** 1908, Mau leader, Saipan, Mariana Islands

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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 (non-violent Mau, Solf), 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:69
# text = In 1908, when the non-violent Mau a Pule resistance movement arose, Solf did not hesitate to banish the Mau leader Lauaki Namulau'ulu Mamoe to Saipan in the German Northern Mariana Islands.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1908	1908	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	non-violent	non-violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Mau	Mau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Pule	Pule	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Solf	Solf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	hesitate	hesitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	banish	banish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Mau	Mau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	Lauaki	Lauaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	Namulau'ulu	Namulau'ulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Saipan	Saipan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	Northern	Northern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Mariana	Mariana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | the non-violent Mau |  |  | 1908 |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1908=Location |
| 2 | **not** **hesitate** | past · do-support | Solf |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **banish** | to-infinitive | Solf *not said here* | the Mau leader | Saipan | the Mariana Islands |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leader=Theme to saipan=Destination |

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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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