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title: The 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots mainly targeted Chinese-owned businesses,… — Tonga · tree and pragmatics
description: The 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots mainly targeted Chinese-owned businesses, leading to the emigration of several hundred Chinese so that only about 300 remain. Who acts: 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots, 300. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tonga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tonga, sentence 190

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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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The 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots mainly targeted Chinese-owned businesses, leading to the emigration of several hundred Chinese so that only about 300 remain.

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**Who acts:** 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots, 300 · **What happens:** target, own, lead, remain · **To what, where:** owned businesses

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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 (2006 Nukuʻalofa riots, 300), 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:190
# text = The 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots mainly targeted Chinese-owned businesses, leading to the emigration of several hundred Chinese so that only about 300 remain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	Nukuʻalofa	Nukuʻalofa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	riots	riot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	targeted	target	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	businesses	business	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	emigration	emigration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
19	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	25	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nsubj	_	_
25	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **target** | past | the 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots | owned businesses |  |  |  | mainly *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme |
| 2 | **own** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | the 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the emigration of several hundred | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to emigration=Patient |
| 4 | **remain** | present | 300 |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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