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title: In January 2004, Cyclone Heta hit Niue, killing one person and causi… — Niue · tree and pragmatics
description: In January 2004, Cyclone Heta hit Niue, killing one person and causing extensive damage to the entire island, including wiping out most of the south of the capital, Alofi. Who acts: Cyclone. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niue» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niue, sentence 58

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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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In January 2004, Cyclone Heta hit Niue, killing one person and causing extensive damage to the entire island, including wiping out most of the south of the capital, Alofi.

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**Who acts:** Cyclone · **What happens:** hit, kill, cause, wipe out · **To what, where:** Niue, one person, extensive damage, most

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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 (Cyclone), 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:58
# text = In January 2004, Cyclone Heta hit Niue, killing one person and causing extensive damage to the entire island, including wiping out most of the south of the capital, Alofi.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Cyclone	Cyclone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Heta	Heta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Niue	Niue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
15	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	including	including	ADP	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	wiping	wipe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Alofi	Alofi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | Cyclone | Niue |  |  | january |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme niue=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | gerund | Cyclone *not said here* | one person |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | gerund | Cyclone *not said here* | extensive damage |  |  |  | to the entire island | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition damage=Patient |
| 4 | **wipe out** | gerund | Cyclone *not said here* | most of the south of the capital |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent most=Source |

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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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