Niue, sentence 182
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.
Under pressure from the US Treasury, Niue agreed to end its support for schemes designed to minimise tax in countries like New Zealand.
Who acts: Niue, Treasury · What happens: agree, end, design, minimise, support · To what, where: pressure, support, schemes, tax, countries
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, Treasury), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 2 pressure | case |
| 2 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 agreed | obl |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Treasury | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Treasury | det |
| 5 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Treasury | compound |
| 6 | Treasury | Treasury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pressure | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pressure | punct |
| 8 | Niue | Niue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 agreed | nsubj |
| 9 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 end | mark |
| 11 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 agreed | xcomp |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 support | nmod:poss |
| 13 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 end | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 schemes | case |
| 15 | schemes | scheme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 end | obl |
| 16 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 schemes | acl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 minimise | mark |
| 18 | minimise | minimise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 designed | advcl |
| 19 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 minimise | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 countries | case |
| 21 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 minimise | obl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 Zealand | case |
| 23 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Zealand | flat |
| 24 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 countries | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Niue | pressure from the US Treasury | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | end not said to happen | to-infinitive | Niue not said here | Treasury's support | for schemes | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality support=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | design | participle | schemes not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | minimise | to-infinitive | tax | countries like New Zealand | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | support | Treasury | nom support «act transitive»: poss=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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