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title: Tokelau is classified as a non-self-governing territory, but is admi… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: Tokelau is classified as a non-self-governing territory, but is administered by a council of three elders (one from each Tokelauan atoll). Who acts: council. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Zealand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Zealand, sentence 194

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From Wikipedia, [«New Zealand»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Tokelau is classified as a non-self-governing territory, but is administered by a council of three elders (one from each Tokelauan atoll).

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**Who acts:** council · **What happens:** classify, non-self-govern, administer · **To what, where:** Tokelau, one, Tokelauan atoll

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «New Zealand». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (council), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:New_Zealand:194
# text = Tokelau is classified as a non-self-governing territory, but is administered by a council of three elders (one from each Tokelauan atoll).
1	Tokelau	Tokelau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	classified	classify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	non-self-governing	non-self-govern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	administered	administer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
22	Tokelauan	Tokelauan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	atoll	atoll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **classify** | present · passive |  | Tokelau |  |  |  | as a non-self-governing territory | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as territory=Attribute |
| 2 | **non-self-govern** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **administer** | present · passive | a council of three elders | one |  | each Tokelauan atoll |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «New Zealand», 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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