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title: The country became a member state of UNESCO on 26 October 1993. — Niue · tree and pragmatics
description: The country became a member state of UNESCO on 26 October 1993. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niue» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niue, sentence 132

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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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The country became a member state of UNESCO on 26 October 1993.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** member state, 26

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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 (country), 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:132
# text = The country became a member state of UNESCO on 26 October 1993.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	UNESCO	UNESCO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
11	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	1993	1993	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the country | a member state of UNESCO |  | 26  October |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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