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title: It has informal defence ties with New Zealand, which is required to… — Samoa · tree and pragmatics
description: It has informal defence ties with New Zealand, which is required to consider any request for assistance from Samoa under the bilateral Treaty of Friendship of 1962. Who acts: preamble, informal defence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Samoa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Samoa, sentence 198

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From Wikipedia, [«Samoa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa), 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 has informal defence ties with New Zealand, which is required to consider any request for assistance from Samoa under the bilateral Treaty of Friendship of 1962.

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**Who acts:** preamble, informal defence · **What happens:** have, tie, require, consider · **To what, where:** request

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Samoa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (preamble, informal defence), 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:Samoa:198
# text = It has informal defence ties with New Zealand, which is required to consider any request for assistance from Samoa under the bilateral Treaty of Friendship of 1962.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	informal	informal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ties	tie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
8	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	bilateral	bilateral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Friendship	Friendship	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1962	1962	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | preamble |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tie** | present | informal defence |  |  |  |  | with New Zealand | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with zealand=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **require** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj:pass* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **consider** | to-infinitive |  | any request |  |  |  | for assistance from Samoa under the bilateral Treaty of Friendship of 1962 | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent request=Attribute |

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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, «Samoa», 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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