New Zealand, sentence 390
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.
Most early English literature was obtained from Britain, and it was not until the 1950s when local publishing outlets increased that New Zealand literature started to become widely known.
Who acts: literature, 1950s, Zealand literature · What happens: obtain, not be, publish, increase, start, become · To what, where: Most early English literature, Britain
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 (literature, 1950s, Zealand literature), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 literature | amod |
| 2 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 literature | amod |
| 3 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 literature | amod |
| 4 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 obtained | aux:pass |
| 6 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Britain | case |
| 8 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 obtained | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 increased | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 1950s | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 1950s | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 1950s | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 1950s | advmod |
| 14 | until | until | ADP | _ | 16 1950s | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 1950s | det |
| 16 | 1950s | 1950 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 21 increased | nsubj |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 increased | advmod |
| 18 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 outlets | amod |
| 19 | publishing | publish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 outlets | amod |
| 20 | outlets | outlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 increased | nsubj |
| 21 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 obtained | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 started | mark |
| 23 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Zealand | flat |
| 24 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 literature | compound |
| 25 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 started | nsubj |
| 26 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 increased | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 become | mark |
| 28 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 started | xcomp |
| 29 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 30 known | advmod |
| 30 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 become | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past · passive | Most early English literature | Britain | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from britain=Source | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | literature | until the 1950s | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | publish | gerund | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | increase | past | the 1950s | local publishing outlets nsubj | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | start | past | Zealand literature | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | become | to-infinitive | Zealand literature not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | know | participle | Zealand literature not said here | widely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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