Niue, sentence 28
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.
He named the island "Savage Island" because, as legend has it, the natives who "greeted" him were painted in what appeared to be blood.
Who acts: Cook, legend, natives · What happens: name, have, greet, paint, appear, be · To what, where: island, permission, Cook, natives, blood
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 (Cook, legend, natives), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 named | nsubj |
| 2 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 island | det |
| 4 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 named | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Island | punct |
| 6 | Savage | Savage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Island | compound |
| 7 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 island | appos |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Island | punct |
| 9 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 2 named | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 has | mark |
| 12 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 named | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 has | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 painted | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 natives | det |
| 17 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 greeted | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 greeted | punct |
| 20 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 natives | acl:relcl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 greeted | punct |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 greeted | obj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 painted | aux:pass |
| 24 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 has | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 what | case |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 painted | obl |
| 27 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 what | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 blood | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 blood | cop |
| 30 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 appeared | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past | Cook | the island | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | legend | permission | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet in a quote | past | the natives | Cook | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | paint | past · passive | the natives | what obl | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in what=Destination | ||||
| 5 | appear | past | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | blood | 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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