New Zealand, sentence 392
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.
During this period, literature changed from a journalistic activity to a more academic pursuit.
Who acts: literature · What happens: change · To what, where: journalistic activity
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), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 period | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 period | det |
| 3 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 changed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 period | punct |
| 5 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 changed | nsubj |
| 6 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 activity | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 activity | det |
| 9 | journalistic | journalistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 activity | amod |
| 10 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 changed | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 pursuit | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pursuit | det |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 academic | advmod |
| 14 | academic | academic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pursuit | amod |
| 15 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 changed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | literature | a journalistic activity | during this period | to a academic pursuit result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from activity=Initial_State to pursuit=Result |
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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