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title: A coral reef surrounds the island; the only major break in the reef… — Niue · tree and pragmatics
description: A coral reef surrounds the island; the only major break in the reef is in the central western coast, close to the capital, Alofi. Who acts: coral reef, only major break. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niue» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niue, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Niue»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niue), 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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A coral reef surrounds the island; the only major break in the reef is in the central western coast, close to the capital, Alofi.

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**Who acts:** coral reef, only major break · **What happens:** surround, be · **To what, where:** island, central western coast

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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 (coral reef, only major break), 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:Niue:10
# text = A coral reef surrounds the island; the only major break in the reef is in the central western coast, close to the capital, Alofi.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	surrounds	surround	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Alofi	Alofi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | present | a coral reef | the island |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the only major break in the reef |  |  | the central western coast |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «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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