New Zealand, sentence 278
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.
Chorus, which was split from Telecom (now Spark) in 2011, still owns the majority of the telecommunications infrastructure, but competition from other providers has increased.
What happens: split, own, increase · To what, where: Chorus, majority, competition
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 | Chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 split | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 split | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 split | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 split | aux:pass |
| 5 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Telecom | case |
| 7 | Telecom | Telecom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 split | obl |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Spark | punct |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 Spark | advmod |
| 10 | Spark | Spark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Telecom | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Spark | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 2011 | case |
| 13 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 split | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 owns | punct |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 owns | advmod |
| 16 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 split | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 majority | det |
| 18 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 owns | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 infrastructure | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 infrastructure | det |
| 21 | telecommunications | telecommunication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 infrastructure | compound |
| 22 | infrastructure | infrastructure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 majority | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 increased | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 increased | cc |
| 25 | competition | competition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 increased | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 providers | case |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 providers | amod |
| 28 | providers | provider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 competition | nmod |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 increased | aux |
| 30 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 owns | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 split | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | past · passive | Chorus | in 2011; from Telecom; which nsubj:pass | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from telecom=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | own | present | the majority of the telecommunications infrastructure | still | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot majority=Theme | ||||
| 3 | increase | present · perfect · passive | competition from other providers | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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