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title: Author of The Shark That Ate the Sun, he also paints tapa cloth insp… — Niue · tree and pragmatics
description: Author of The Shark That Ate the Sun, he also paints tapa cloth inspired designs on canvas. Who acts: Author. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niue» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niue, sentence 265

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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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Author of The Shark That Ate the Sun, he also paints tapa cloth inspired designs on canvas.

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**Who acts:** Author · **What happens:** eat, paint, inspire · **To what, where:** Sun, tapa cloth

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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 (Author), 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:265
# text = Author of The Shark That Ate the Sun, he also paints tapa cloth inspired designs on canvas.
1	Author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Shark	Shark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	paints	paint	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	tapa	tapa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	designs	design	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	canvas	canvas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | Author of the Shark | the Sun |  |  |  | That *nsubj* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient |
| 2 | **paint** | present | Author | tapa cloth |  |  |  | inspired designs *obj* | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient design=Result |
| 3 | **inspire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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