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title: Takihi, the national dish, is made from coconut cream and thinly sli… — Niue · tree and pragmatics
description: Takihi, the national dish, is made from coconut cream and thinly sliced taro and papaya layered on top of each other until it forms a cake like structure. Who acts: taro. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niue» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niue, sentence 278

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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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Takihi, the national dish, is made from coconut cream and thinly sliced taro and papaya layered on top of each other until it forms a cake like structure.

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**Who acts:** taro · **What happens:** make, slice, layer, form · **To what, where:** Takihi, coconut cream, taro, top, cake

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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 (taro), 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:278
# text = Takihi, the national dish, is made from coconut cream and thinly sliced taro and papaya layered on top of each other until it forms a cake like structure.
1	Takihi	Takihi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	coconut	coconut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	thinly	thinly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	sliced	slice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	taro	taro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	papaya	papaya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	layered	layer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	fixed	_	_
24	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	structure	structure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | Takihi |  | coconut cream |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from cream=Material |
| 2 | **slice** | past |  | taro and papaya |  |  |  | thinly *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taro=Patient |
| 3 | **layer** | participle |  | taro and papaya *not said here* |  | top of each |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** | present | taro | a cake |  |  |  | like structure | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cake=Theme |

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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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