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# Niue, sentence 18

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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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Niue is not a member of the United Nations (UN); however, UN organisations accept its status as a freely associated state, equivalent to an independent state for the purposes of international law.

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**Who acts:** Niue, UN organisations, international law · **What happens:** not be, accept, associate, purpose · **To what, where:** member, status

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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 (Niue, UN organisations, international law), 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:18
# text = Niue is not a member of the United Nations (UN); however, UN organisations accept its status as a freely associated state, equivalent to an independent state for the purposes of international law.
1	Niue	Niue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	9	compound	_	_
9	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	however	however	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	organisations	organisation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	accept	accept	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	equivalent	equivalent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Niue | a member |  |  |  | of the United Nations | tree rules |
| 2 | **accept** | present | UN organisations | member's status |  |  |  | as a associated state; however *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent status=Theme as state=Attribute |
| 3 | **associate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **purpose** |  | international law |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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