New Zealand, sentence 243
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.
Poverty in New Zealand is characterised by growing income inequality; wealth in New Zealand is highly concentrated, with the top 1% of the population owning 16% of the country's wealth, and the richest 5% owning 38%, leaving a stark contrast where half the population, including state beneficiaries and pensioners, receive less than $24,000.
Who acts: population, state beneficiaries · What happens: characteris, grow, concentrate, own, leave, receive · To what, where: Poverty, income inequality, wealth, stark contrast
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 (population, state beneficiaries), 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 | Poverty | Poverty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 characterised | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Zealand | case |
| 3 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Zealand | flat |
| 4 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Poverty | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 characterised | aux:pass |
| 6 | characterised | characteris | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 growing | mark |
| 8 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 characterised | advcl |
| 9 | income | income | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inequality | compound |
| 10 | inequality | inequality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 growing | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 concentrated | punct |
| 12 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 concentrated | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Zealand | case |
| 14 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Zealand | flat |
| 15 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wealth | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 concentrated | aux:pass |
| 17 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 18 concentrated | advmod |
| 18 | concentrated | concentrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 characterised | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 % | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 % | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 % | det |
| 22 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 % | compound |
| 23 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 top | flat |
| 24 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 18 concentrated | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 population | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 population | det |
| 27 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 % | nmod |
| 28 | owning | own | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 population | acl |
| 29 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 % | nummod |
| 30 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 28 owning | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 wealth | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 country | det |
| 33 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 country | case |
| 35 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 % | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 % | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 % | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 % | det |
| 39 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 41 % | amod |
| 40 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 % | nummod |
| 41 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 6 characterised | parataxis |
| 42 | owning | own | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 % | acl |
| 43 | 38 | 38 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 % | nummod |
| 44 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 42 owning | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 leaving | punct |
| 46 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 owning | advcl |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 contrast | det |
| 48 | stark | stark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 contrast | amod |
| 49 | contrast | contrast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 leaving | obj |
| 50 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 51 half | advmod |
| 51 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 53 population | det:predet |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 population | det |
| 53 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 contrast | appos |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 beneficiaries | punct |
| 55 | including | including | ADP | _ | 57 beneficiaries | case |
| 56 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 beneficiaries | compound |
| 57 | beneficiaries | beneficiary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 population | appos |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 pensioners | cc |
| 59 | pensioners | pensioner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 beneficiaries | conj |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 receive | punct |
| 61 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 57 beneficiaries | acl:relcl |
| 62 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 64 $ | advmod |
| 63 | than | than | ADP | _ | 62 less | fixed |
| 64 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 61 receive | obj |
| 65 | 24,000 | 24000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 64 $ | nummod |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 characterised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | characteris | present · passive | Poverty in New Zealand | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | income inequality | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location inequality=Theme | |||||
| 3 | concentrate | present · passive | wealth in New Zealand | highly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | own | gerund | the population not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot %=Theme | |||||
| 5 | own | gerund | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot %=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | leave | gerund | a stark contrast | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contrast=Theme | |||||
| 7 | receive | present | state beneficiaries and pensioners not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent $=Theme |
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, «New Zealand», 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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