New Zealand, sentence 299
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.
New Zealand is a predominantly urban country, with % of the population living in urban areas and % in the seven cities with populations exceeding 100,000.
Who acts: New Zealand, population, populations · What happens: be, live, exceed · To what, where: urban country, urban areas, 100,000
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 (New Zealand, population, populations), 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 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Zealand | flat |
| 2 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 country | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 country | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 5 | predominantly | predominantly | ADV | _ | 6 urban | advmod |
| 6 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 country | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 % | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 % | case |
| 10 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 7 country | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 population | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 population | det |
| 13 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 % | nmod |
| 14 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 population | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 areas | case |
| 16 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 areas | amod |
| 17 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 living | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 % | cc |
| 19 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 17 areas | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 cities | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cities | det |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 cities | nummod |
| 23 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 % | nmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 populations | case |
| 25 | populations | population | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cities | nmod |
| 26 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 populations | acl |
| 27 | 100,000 | 100000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 exceeding | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | New Zealand | a urban country | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | the population not said here | urban areas | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location | ||||
| 3 | exceed | gerund | populations not said here | 100,000 | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot 100000=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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