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title: Electors must be New Zealand citizens, resident for at least three m… — Niue · tree and pragmatics
description: Electors must be New Zealand citizens, resident for at least three months, and candidates must be electors and resident for 12 months. Who acts: Electors, candidates. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niue» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niue, sentence 112

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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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Electors must be New Zealand citizens, resident for at least three months, and candidates must be electors and resident for 12 months.

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**Who acts:** Electors, candidates · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Zealand citizens, electors

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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 (Electors, candidates), 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:112
# text = Electors must be New Zealand citizens, resident for at least three months, and candidates must be electors and resident for 12 months.
1	Electors	elector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	resident	resident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	nmod	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	electors	elector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	resident	resident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must | Electors | Zealand citizens and resident for three months and electors and resident for 12 months |  |  |  | resident for three months *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | must | candidates | electors and resident for 12 months |  |  |  | resident for 12 months *conj* | 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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