New Zealand, sentence 55
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.
Potatoes provided a reliable food surplus, which enabled longer and more sustained military campaigns.
Who acts: Potatoes, reliable food surplus · What happens: provide, enable, sustain · To what, where: reliable food surplus, military campaigns
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 (Potatoes, reliable food surplus), 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 | Potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 provided | nsubj |
| 2 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 surplus | det |
| 4 | reliable | reliable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 surplus | amod |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surplus | compound |
| 6 | surplus | surplus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 provided | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 enabled | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 enabled | nsubj |
| 9 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surplus | acl:relcl |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 enabled | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sustained | cc |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 sustained | advmod |
| 13 | sustained | sustain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 enabled | conj |
| 14 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 campaigns | amod |
| 15 | campaigns | campaign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sustained | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | past | Potatoes | a reliable food surplus | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition surplus=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enable | past | a reliable food surplus | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sustain | participle | a reliable food surplus not said here | military campaigns | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent campaign=Theme |
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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