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title: Tonga has competed in six Rugby World Cups since 1987. — Tonga · tree and pragmatics
description: Tonga has competed in six Rugby World Cups since 1987. Who acts: Tonga. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tonga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tonga, sentence 244

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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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Tonga has competed in six Rugby World Cups since 1987.

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**Who acts:** Tonga · **What happens:** compete · **To what, where:** six World Cups

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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 (Tonga), 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:244
# text = Tonga has competed in six Rugby World Cups since 1987.
1	Tonga	Tonga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	competed	compete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	Rugby	Rugby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	since	since	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1987	1987	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **compete** | present · perfect | Tonga |  |  | six World Cups | since 1987 |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: 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, «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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