Niue, sentence 156
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.
Cyclone Heta set the island back about two years from its planned timeline to implement the NISP, since national efforts concentrated on recovery efforts.
Who acts: Cyclone · What happens: set back, plan, implement, concentrate · To what, where: island, planned timeline, NISP, national efforts
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 (Cyclone), 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 | Cyclone | cyclone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | Heta | Heta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cyclone | appos |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 island | det |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 two | advmod |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 timeline | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 timeline | nmod:poss |
| 12 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 timeline | amod |
| 13 | timeline | timeline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 implement | mark |
| 15 | implement | implement | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 NISP | det |
| 17 | NISP | NISP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 implement | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 efforts | punct |
| 19 | since | since | ADP | _ | 21 efforts | case |
| 20 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 efforts | amod |
| 21 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obl |
| 22 | concentrated | concentrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 efforts | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 efforts | case |
| 24 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 efforts | compound |
| 25 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 concentrated | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set back | past | Cyclone | the island | Plan's planned timeline | since national efforts; year | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient island=Result | ||
| 2 | plan | participle | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | implement | to-infinitive | Cyclone not said here | the NISP | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nisp=Patient | ||||
| 4 | concentrate | participle | national efforts not said here | on recovery efforts | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on effort=Topic |
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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