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title: However, a previous heavy defeat by the All Blacks at the tournament… — Tonga · tree and pragmatics
description: However, a previous heavy defeat by the All Blacks at the tournament's opener (41–10) and a subsequent tight defeat by Canada (25–20) meant that Tonga lost out to France (who also lost to NZ) for the quarter finals due to 2 bonus points and a points difference of 46. Who acts: previous heavy defeat,
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# Tonga, sentence 251

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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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However, a previous heavy defeat by the All Blacks at the tournament's opener (41–10) and a subsequent tight defeat by Canada (25–20) meant that Tonga lost out to France (who also lost to NZ) for the quarter finals due to 2 bonus points and a points difference of 46.

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**Who acts:** previous heavy defeat, Tonga, Blacks, tournament, Canada · **What happens:** mean, lose out, lose, defeat, open · **To what, where:** France, NZ · **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 (previous heavy defeat, Tonga, Blacks, tournament), 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:251
# text = However, a previous heavy defeat by the All Blacks at the tournament's opener (41–10) and a subsequent tight defeat by Canada (25–20) meant that Tonga lost out to France (who also lost to NZ) for the quarter finals due to 2 bonus points and a points difference of 46.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	Blacks	black	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tournament	tournament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	opener	opener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	41	41	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
33	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	Tonga	Tonga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
42	also	also	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	NZ	NZ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	finals	final	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
51	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	55	case	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	fixed	_	_
53	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	55	nummod	_	_
54	bonus	bonus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	compound	_	_
59	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	46	46	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | a previous heavy defeat by the Blacks at the tournament's opener and a subsequent tight defeat by Canada |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lose out** | past | Tonga |  | France |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lose** | past |  |  | NZ |  |  | for the quarter finals due 2 bonus points and a points difference of 46; who *nsubj* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **defeat** |  | the Blacks at the tournament's opener |  |  |  |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: by=agent |
| 5 | **open** |  | the tournament |  |  |  |  |  | nom opener «event transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **defeat** |  | Canada |  |  |  |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: by=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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