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title: Cyclone Heta set the island back about two years from its planned ti… — Niue · tree and pragmatics
description: Cyclone Heta set the island back about two years from its planned timeline to implement the NISP, since national efforts concentrated on recovery efforts. Who acts: Cyclone. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niue» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niue, sentence 156

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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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Cyclone Heta set the island back about two years from its planned timeline to implement the NISP, since national efforts concentrated on recovery efforts.

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**Who acts:** Cyclone · **What happens:** set back, plan, implement, concentrate · **To what, where:** island, planned timeline, NISP, national efforts

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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 (Cyclone), 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:156
# text = Cyclone Heta set the island back about two years from its planned timeline to implement the NISP, since national efforts concentrated on recovery efforts.
1	Cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Heta	Heta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	timeline	timeline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	implement	implement	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	NISP	NISP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	since	since	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
22	concentrated	concentrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	recovery	recovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set back** | past | Cyclone | the island |  | Plan's planned timeline | since national efforts; year |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient island=Result |
| 2 | **plan** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **implement** | to-infinitive | Cyclone *not said here* | the NISP |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nisp=Patient |
| 4 | **concentrate** | participle |  | national efforts *not said here* |  |  |  | on recovery efforts | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on effort=Topic |

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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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