Niue, sentence 58

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.

In January 2004, Cyclone Heta hit Niue, killing one person and causing extensive damage to the entire island, including wiping out most of the south of the capital, Alofi.

Who acts: Cyclone · What happens: hit, kill, cause, wipe out · To what, where: Niue, one person, extensive damage, most

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	In	in	ADP	_	2 January	case
2	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hit	obl
3	2004	2004	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 January	nmod:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Cyclone	punct
5	Cyclone	Cyclone	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hit	nsubj
6	Heta	Heta	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Cyclone	flat
7	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Niue	Niue	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hit	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 killing	punct
10	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hit	advcl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 person	nummod
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 killing	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 causing	cc
14	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 killing	conj
15	extensive	extensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 damage	amod
16	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 causing	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 island	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 island	det
19	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 island	amod
20	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 causing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wiping	punct
22	including	including	ADP	_	23 wiping	mark
23	wiping	wipe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 causing	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 wiping	compound:prt
25	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 wiping	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 south	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 south	det
28	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 most	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 capital	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 capital	det
31	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 south	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Alofi	punct
33	Alofi	Alofi	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 capital	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	Cyclone	Niue	january		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme niue=Co-Theme
2	kill	gerund	Cyclone not said here	one person			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme
3	cause	gerund	Cyclone not said here	extensive damage		to the entire island	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition damage=Patient
4	wipe out	gerund	Cyclone not said here	most of the south of the capital			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent most=Source

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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Niue, sentence 58