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title: It is thought that similar radioactive soils may exist on Lifou and… — Niue · tree and pragmatics
description: It is thought that similar radioactive soils may exist on Lifou and Mare near New Caledonia, and Rennell in the Solomon Islands, but no other locations are known. Who acts: similar radioactive soils. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Niue» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Niue, sentence 82

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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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It is thought that similar radioactive soils may exist on Lifou and Mare near New Caledonia, and Rennell in the Solomon Islands, but no other locations are known.

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**Who acts:** similar radioactive soils · **What happens:** think, exist, know · **To what, where:** phosphate, Lifou, other locations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (similar radioactive soils), 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:82
# text = It is thought that similar radioactive soils may exist on Lifou and Mare near New Caledonia, and Rennell in the Solomon Islands, but no other locations are known.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	radioactive	radioactive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	soils	soil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Lifou	Lifou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Mare	Mare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Caledonia	Caledonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Rennell	Rennell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	locations	location	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | phosphate |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **exist** | may | similar radioactive soils |  |  | Lifou and Mare near New Caledonia and Rennell in the Solomon Islands |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lifou=Location |
| 3 | **know** | present · passive |  | no other locations |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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