Niue, sentence 18
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.
Niue is not a member of the United Nations (UN); however, UN organisations accept its status as a freely associated state, equivalent to an independent state for the purposes of international law.
Who acts: Niue, UN organisations, international law · What happens: not be, accept, associate, purpose · To what, where: member, status
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 (Niue, UN organisations, international law), 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 | Niue | Niue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 member | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 member | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 member | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 member | det |
| 5 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Nations | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Nations | det |
| 8 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 9 Nations | compound |
| 9 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 member | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 UN | punct |
| 11 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Nations | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 UN | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 accept | punct |
| 14 | however | however | ADV | _ | 18 accept | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 however | punct |
| 16 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 organisations | compound |
| 17 | organisations | organisation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 accept | nsubj |
| 18 | accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 member | conj |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 status | nmod:poss |
| 20 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accept | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 state | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 state | det |
| 23 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 24 associated | advmod |
| 24 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 state | amod |
| 25 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accept | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 equivalent | punct |
| 27 | equivalent | equivalent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 state | amod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 state | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 state | det |
| 30 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 state | amod |
| 31 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 equivalent | obl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 purposes | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 purposes | det |
| 34 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 state | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 law | case |
| 36 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 law | amod |
| 37 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 purposes | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 member | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Niue | a member | of the United Nations | tree rules | |||
| 2 | accept | present | UN organisations | member's status | as a associated state; however property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent status=Theme as state=Attribute | |||
| 3 | associate | participle | freely property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | purpose | international law | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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