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Australia, sentence 92

From Wikipedia, «Australia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Australia took over the administration of the Territory of Papua (previously British New Guinea) in 1905 and of the Territory of New Guinea (formerly German New Guinea) in 1920.

Who acts: Australia · What happens: take over, administer · To what, where: administration, 1905, Territory

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Australia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Australia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

nsubjcompound:prtdetobjcasedetnmodcasenmodpunctadvmodamodcompoundappospunctcaseoblcccasedetnmod:unmarkedcasecompoundnmodpunctadvmodamodcompoundappospunctcaseoblpunctrootAustraliaPROPNtookVERBoverADPtheDETadministrationNOUNofADPtheDETTerritoryPROPNofADPPapuaPROPN(PUNCTpreviouslyADVBritishADJNewPROPNGuineaPROPN)PUNCTinADP1905NUMandCCONJofADPtheDETTerritoryPROPNofADPNewPROPNGuineaPROPN(PUNCTformerlyADVGermanADJNewPROPNGuineaPROPN)PUNCTinADP1920NUM.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AustraliaAustraliaPROPNNumber=Sing2 tooknsubj
2tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3overoverADP_2 tookcompound:prt
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 administrationdet
5administrationadministrationNOUNNumber=Sing2 tookobj
6ofofADP_8 Territorycase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Territorydet
8TerritoryTerritoryPROPNNumber=Sing5 administrationnmod
9ofofADP_10 Papuacase
10PapuaPapuaPROPNNumber=Sing8 Territorynmod
11((PUNCT_15 Guineapunct
12previouslypreviouslyADV_15 Guineaadvmod
13BritishBritishADJDegree=Pos15 Guineaamod
14NewNewPROPNNumber=Sing15 Guineacompound
15GuineaGuineaPROPNNumber=Sing8 Territoryappos
16))PUNCT_15 Guineapunct
17ininADP_18 1905case
1819051905NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card2 tookobl
19andandCCONJ_22 Territorycc
20ofofADP_22 Territorycase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 Territorydet
22TerritoryTerritoryPROPNNumber=Sing18 1905nmod:unmarked
23ofofADP_25 Guineacase
24NewNewPROPNNumber=Sing25 Guineacompound
25GuineaGuineaPROPNNumber=Sing22 Territorynmod
26((PUNCT_30 Guineapunct
27formerlyformerlyADV_30 Guineaadvmod
28GermanGermanADJDegree=Pos30 Guineaamod
29NewNewPROPNNumber=Sing30 Guineacompound
30GuineaGuineaPROPNNumber=Sing22 Territoryappos
31))PUNCT_30 Guineapunct
32ininADP_33 1920case
3319201920NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card2 tookobl
34..PUNCT_2 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1take overpastAustraliathe administration of the Territory of Papua1905 of the Territory of New Guineain 1920vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent administration=Theme
2administerthe Territory of Papuanom administration «act transitive»: of=patient

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Australia», 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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