New Zealand, sentence 398
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.
Early settlers brought over their ethnic music, with brass bands and choral music being popular, and musicians began touring New Zealand in the 1860s.
Who acts: Early settlers, brass bands, musicians · What happens: bring, be, begin, tour · To what, where: ethnic music, New Zealand, 1860s
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 (Early settlers, brass bands, musicians), 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 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 settlers | amod |
| 2 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 music | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 music | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 music | amod |
| 7 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bands | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 bands | case |
| 10 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bands | compound |
| 11 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 popular | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 music | cc |
| 13 | choral | choral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 music | amod |
| 14 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bands | conj |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 popular | cop |
| 16 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brought | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 19 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 21 | touring | tour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 began | xcomp |
| 22 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Zealand | flat |
| 23 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 touring | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 1860s | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 1860s | det |
| 26 | 1860s | 1860 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 21 touring | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Early settlers | settlers's ethnic music | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | brass bands and choral music | popular property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | musicians | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | tour | gerund | musicians not said here | New Zealand | the 1860s | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent zealand=Location |
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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