New Zealand, sentence 189
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.
The territorial authorities consist of 13 city councils, 53 district councils, and the Chatham Islands Council.
Who acts: territorial authorities · What happens: consist · To what, where: Islands Council
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: who acts (territorial authorities), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 authorities | det |
| 2 | territorial | territorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 authorities | amod |
| 3 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consist | nsubj |
| 4 | consist | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 councils | case |
| 6 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 councils | nummod |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 councils | compound |
| 8 | councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consist | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 councils | punct |
| 10 | 53 | 53 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 councils | nummod |
| 11 | district | district | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 councils | amod |
| 12 | councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 councils | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Council | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Council | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Council | det |
| 16 | Chatham | Chatham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Islands | compound |
| 17 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 Council | compound |
| 18 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 consist | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | present | the territorial authorities | the Islands Council | of 13 city councils and 53 district councils | tree rules |
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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