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title: A despatch to the Secretary of State for the Colonies from the Gover… — Niue · tree and pragmatics
description: A despatch to the Secretary of State for the Colonies from the Governor of New Zealand referred to the views expressed by the Chiefs in favour of "annexation" and to this document as "the deed of cession". Who acts: despatch. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niue» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niue, sentence 49

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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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A despatch to the Secretary of State for the Colonies from the Governor of New Zealand referred to the views expressed by the Chiefs in favour of "annexation" and to this document as "the deed of cession".

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**Who acts:** despatch · **What happens:** refer, express, favour · **To what, where:** views, favour, annexation

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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 (despatch), 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:49
# text = A despatch to the Secretary of State for the Colonies from the Governor of New Zealand referred to the views expressed by the Chiefs in favour of "annexation" and to this document as "the deed of cession".
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	despatch	despatch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Secretary	Secretary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
16	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	referred	refer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Chiefs	Chief	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	obl:agent	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	annexation	annexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	document	document	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	cession	cession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | past | a despatch to the Secretary of State for the Colonies from the Governor of New Zealand |  |  |  |  | to the views | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to view=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **express** | participle |  | the views *not said here* |  | favour of annexation and this document as the deed of cession |  | the Chiefs *obl:agent* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **favour** |  |  | annexation and this document as the deed of cession |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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