New Zealand, sentence 11
From Wikipedia, «New Zealand», 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.
Subsequently, a series of conflicts between the colonial government and Māori tribes resulted in the alienation and confiscation of large amounts of Māori land.
What happens: result, confiscate, amount · To what, where: Māori tribes, alienation, series, large amounts, Māori land
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «New Zealand». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 4 series | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Subsequently | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 series | det |
| 4 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 conflicts | case |
| 6 | conflicts | conflict | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 series | nmod |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 government | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 government | det |
| 9 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 government | amod |
| 10 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conflicts | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tribes | cc |
| 12 | Māori | māori | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tribes | amod |
| 13 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 government | conj |
| 14 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tribes | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 alienation | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 alienation | det |
| 17 | alienation | alienation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 resulted | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 confiscation | cc |
| 19 | confiscation | confiscation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 alienation | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 amounts | case |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 amounts | amod |
| 22 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 confiscation | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 24 | Māori | māori | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 land | amod |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 amounts | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 series | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | result | participle | Māori tribes not said here | the alienation and confiscation of large amounts of Māori land | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in alienation=Location | ||||
| 3 | confiscate | large amounts of Māori land | nom confiscation «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | amount | Māori land | nom amount «possession 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.
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