New Zealand, sentence 328
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.
English is the predominant language in New Zealand, spoken by 95.4% of the population.
Who acts: English · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: predominant language, New Zealand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (English), 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 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 language | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 language | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 language | det |
| 4 | predominant | predominant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 language | amod |
| 5 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Zealand | case |
| 7 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Zealand | flat |
| 8 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 language | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoken | punct |
| 10 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 language | parataxis |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 % | case |
| 12 | 95.4 | 95.4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 % | nummod |
| 13 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 10 spoken | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 population | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 population | det |
| 16 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 % | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 language | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | English | the predominant language | New Zealand | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | participle | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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