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title: Under pressure from the US Treasury, Niue agreed to end its support… — Niue · tree and pragmatics
description: Under pressure from the US Treasury, Niue agreed to end its support for schemes designed to minimise tax in countries like New Zealand. Who acts: Niue, Treasury. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niue» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niue, sentence 182

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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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Under pressure from the US Treasury, Niue agreed to end its support for schemes designed to minimise tax in countries like New Zealand.

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**Who acts:** Niue, Treasury · **What happens:** agree, end, design, minimise, support · **To what, where:** pressure, support, schemes, tax, countries

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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, Treasury), 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:182
# text = Under pressure from the US Treasury, Niue agreed to end its support for schemes designed to minimise tax in countries like New Zealand.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Treasury	Treasury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	Niue	Niue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	schemes	scheme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	minimise	minimise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
24	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Niue |  |  | pressure from the US Treasury |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **end** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Niue *not said here* | Treasury's support |  |  |  | for schemes | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality support=Eventuality |
| 3 | **design** | participle |  | schemes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **minimise** | to-infinitive |  | tax |  | countries like New Zealand |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **support** |  | Treasury |  |  |  |  |  | nom support «act transitive»: poss=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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