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title: The first of these on record is the Ann and Hope, which was reported… — Tonga · tree and pragmatics
description: The first of these on record is the Ann and Hope, which was reported to have been seen among the islands of Tonga in June 1799. Who acts: first. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tonga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tonga, sentence 31

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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 first of these on record is the Ann and Hope, which was reported to have been seen among the islands of Tonga in June 1799.

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**Who acts:** first · **What happens:** be, report, see · **To what, where:** Ann Hope

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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 (first), 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:31
# text = The first of these on record is the Ann and Hope, which was reported to have been seen among the islands of Tonga in June 1799.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Hope	Hope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Tonga	Tonga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	1799	1799	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the first of these on record | the Ann Hope |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **report** | past · passive |  | the Ann Hope |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  | june | among the islands of Tonga | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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