--- title: Later noteworthy European visitors included James Cook, of the Briti… — Tonga · tree and pragmatics description: Later noteworthy European visitors included James Cook, of the British Royal Navy, in 1773, 1774, and 1777; Spanish Navy explorers Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa in 1781; Alessandro Malaspina in 1793; the first Protestant missionaries in 1797; and a Wesleyan Methodist minister, Reverend Walter Lawry, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tonga/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Tonga](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tonga/) / 29 # Tonga, sentence 29 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. Later noteworthy European visitors included James Cook, of the British Royal Navy, in 1773, 1774, and 1777; Spanish Navy explorers Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa in 1781; Alessandro Malaspina in 1793; the first Protestant missionaries in 1797; and a Wesleyan Methodist minister, Reverend Walter Lawry, in 1822. **Who acts:** noteworthy European visitors · **What happens:** include · **To what, where:** James Cook, 1773 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 (noteworthy European visitors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:29 # text = Later noteworthy European visitors included James Cook, of the British Royal Navy, in 1773, 1774, and 1777; Spanish Navy explorers Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa in 1781; Alessandro Malaspina in 1793; the first Protestant missionaries in 1797; and a Wesleyan Methodist minister, Reverend Walter Lawry, in 1822. 1 Later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 2 noteworthy noteworthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 included include VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Cook Cook PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 Royal Royal ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Navy Navy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 1773 1773 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 1774 1774 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 1777 1777 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 Navy navy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 explorers explorer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 26 Francisco Francisco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 27 Mourelle Mourelle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 28 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 26 flat:foreign _ _ 29 la la X GW _ 26 parataxis _ _ 30 Rúa Rúa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 goeswith _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 1781 1781 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 Alessandro Alessandro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Malaspina Malaspina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 list _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 1793 1793 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 42 amod _ _ 41 Protestant protestant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 missionaries missionary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 1797 1797 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ; ; PUNCT : _ 57 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 48 Wesleyan Wesleyan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 Methodist Methodist PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 Reverend Reverend PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 Walter Walter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 appos _ _ 54 Lawry Lawry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 1822 1822 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **include** | past | noteworthy European visitors | James Cook | | | | in 1773 *goal*; in 1822 a Methodist minister; 1777 *obl*; the British Royal Navy *conj*; Spanish Navy explorers in 1793 and the first Protestant missionaries in 1797 *parataxis*; late *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent cook=Theme in 1773=Goal | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tonga/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tonga/30/) - ↑ back to [Tonga](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Tonga/)