Niue, sentence 37
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 was finally allowed to land in Uluvehi Mutalau after a number of attempts in other villages had failed.
Who acts: Peniamina · What happens: allow, land, fail · To what, where: Peniamina, Uluvehi, attempts, other villages
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 (Peniamina), 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 | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 land | mark |
| 6 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Uluvehi | case |
| 8 | Uluvehi | Uluvehi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 land | obl |
| 9 | Mutalau | Mutalau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Uluvehi | flat |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 number | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 number | det |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 land | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 attempts | case |
| 14 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 number | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 villages | case |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 villages | amod |
| 17 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 failed | obl |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 failed | aux |
| 19 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 attempts | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past · passive | Peniamina | finally property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | land not said to happen | to-infinitive | Peniamina not said here | Uluvehi | after a number of attempts | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in uluvehi=Destination | |||
| 3 | fail | past · perfect | attempts not said here | other villages | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in village=Eventuality |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Niue», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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