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title: He was finally allowed to land in Uluvehi Mutalau after a number of… — Niue · tree and pragmatics
description: He was finally allowed to land in Uluvehi Mutalau after a number of attempts in other villages had failed. Who acts: Peniamina. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niue» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niue, sentence 37

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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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He was finally allowed to land in Uluvehi Mutalau after a number of attempts in other villages had failed.

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**Who acts:** Peniamina · **What happens:** allow, land, fail · **To what, where:** Peniamina, Uluvehi, attempts, other villages

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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 (Peniamina), 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:37
# text = He was finally allowed to land in Uluvehi Mutalau after a number of attempts in other villages had failed.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Uluvehi	Uluvehi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	Mutalau	Mutalau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past · passive |  | Peniamina |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **land** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Peniamina *not said here* |  |  | Uluvehi | after a number of attempts |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in uluvehi=Destination |
| 3 | **fail** | past · perfect |  | attempts *not said here* |  | other villages |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in village=Eventuality |

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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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