New Zealand, sentence 38
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.
The New Zealand Geographic Board discovered in 2009 that the names of the North Island and South Island had never been formalised, and names and alternative names were formalised in 2013.
Who acts: Zealand Geographic Board · What happens: discover, not formalis, formalis, name · To what, where: 2009, names, 2013, North Island
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 (Zealand Geographic Board), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Board | det |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Zealand | flat |
| 3 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Board | compound |
| 4 | Geographic | Geographic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Board | compound |
| 5 | Board | Board | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 discovered | nsubj |
| 6 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 2009 | case |
| 8 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 discovered | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 formalised | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 names | det |
| 11 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 formalised | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Island | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Island | det |
| 14 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Island | compound |
| 15 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 names | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Island | cc |
| 17 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Island | compound |
| 18 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Island | conj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 formalised | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 formalised | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 formalised | aux:pass |
| 22 | formalised | formalis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 discovered | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 formalised | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 formalised | cc |
| 25 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 formalised | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 names | cc |
| 27 | alternative | alternative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 names | amod |
| 28 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 names | conj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 formalised | aux:pass |
| 30 | formalised | formalis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 discovered | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 2013 | case |
| 32 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 formalised | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | the Zealand Geographic Board | 2009 | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not formalis | past · perfect · passive | the names of the North Island and South Island | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | formalis | past · passive | names and alternative names | 2013 | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | the North Island and South Island | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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