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title: On 29 July 2008, the Palace announced that King George Tupou V would… — Tonga · tree and pragmatics
description: On 29 July 2008, the Palace announced that King George Tupou V would relinquish much of his power and would surrender his role in day-to-day governmental affairs to the Prime Minister. Who acts: Palace, George V. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tonga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tonga, sentence 110

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From Wikipedia, [«Tonga»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga), 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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On 29 July 2008, the Palace announced that King George Tupou V would relinquish much of his power and would surrender his role in day-to-day governmental affairs to the Prime Minister.

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**Who acts:** Palace, George V · **What happens:** announce, relinquish, surrender · **To what, where:** much, role · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Palace, George V), 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:Tonga:110
# text = On 29 July 2008, the Palace announced that King George Tupou V would relinquish much of his power and would surrender his role in day-to-day governmental affairs to the Prime Minister.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	Tupou	Tupou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	V	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	relinquish	relinquish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	surrender	surrender	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
31	governmental	governmental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	36	compound	_	_
36	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the Palace |  |  |  | july |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **relinquish** | would | George V | much of V's power |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
| 3 | **surrender** | would | George V *not said here* | V's role |  |  | day | governmental affairs *obj* | tree rules |

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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, «Tonga», 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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