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title: There are three outlying coral reefs within the exclusive economic z… — Niue · tree and pragmatics
description: There are three outlying coral reefs within the exclusive economic zone, with no land area: Who acts: three outlying coral reefs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niue» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niue, sentence 63

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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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There are three outlying coral reefs within the exclusive economic zone, with no land area:

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**Who acts:** three outlying coral reefs · **What happens:** be, outlie

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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 (three outlying coral reefs), 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:63
# text = There are three outlying coral reefs within the exclusive economic zone, with no land area:
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	outlying	outlie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
5	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
7	within	within	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	exclusive	exclusive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | three outlying coral reefs |  |  | there |  | within the exclusive economic zone; no land area *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **outlie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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