New Zealand, sentence 34
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.
Māori had no known name for the islands collectively before the arrival of Europeans.
Who acts: Māori, Europeans · What happens: have, know, arrive · To what, where: known name
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 (Māori, Europeans), 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 | Māori | Māori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 name | det |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 name | amod |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 islands | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 islands | det |
| 8 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obl |
| 9 | collectively | collectively | ADV | _ | 12 arrival | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 arrival | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 arrival | det |
| 12 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Europeans | case |
| 14 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 arrival | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Māori | no known name | for the islands; the arrival of Europeans obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | arrive | Europeans | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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.
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