Niue, sentence 112
From Wikipedia, «Niue», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Electors must be New Zealand citizens, resident for at least three months, and candidates must be electors and resident for 12 months.
Who acts: Electors, candidates · What happens: be · To what, where: Zealand citizens, electors
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Niue». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Electors, candidates), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Electors | elector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 citizens | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 citizens | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 citizens | cop |
| 4 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Zealand | flat |
| 5 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 citizens | compound |
| 6 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 resident | punct |
| 8 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 citizens | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 months | case |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 least | case |
| 11 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 three | nmod |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 months | nummod |
| 13 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 resident | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 electors | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 electors | cc |
| 16 | candidates | candidate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 electors | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 electors | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 electors | cop |
| 19 | electors | elector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 citizens | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 resident | cc |
| 21 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 electors | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 months | case |
| 23 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 months | nummod |
| 24 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 resident | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 citizens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | Electors | Zealand citizens and resident for three months and electors and resident for 12 months | resident for three months conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | must | candidates | electors and resident for 12 months | resident for 12 months conj | tree rules |
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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