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title: Tonga by James Siers — Tonga · tree and pragmatics
description: Tonga by James Siers A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tonga» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tonga, sentence 316

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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 by James Siers

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**To what, where:** Tonga Siers

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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: 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:316
# text = Tonga by James Siers
1	Tonga	Tonga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	Siers	sier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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