New Zealand, sentence 59
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 British Government appointed James Busby as British Resident to New Zealand in 1832.
Who acts: British Government · What happens: appoint · To what, where: James, New Zealand, 1832
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 (British Government), 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 | 3 Government | det |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Government | amod |
| 3 | Government | Government | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appointed | nsubj |
| 4 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appointed | obj |
| 6 | Busby | Busby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 James | flat |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 Resident | case |
| 8 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Resident | amod |
| 9 | Resident | Resident | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appointed | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Zealand | case |
| 11 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Zealand | flat |
| 12 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appointed | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1832 | case |
| 14 | 1832 | 1832 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 appointed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past | the British Government | James | New Zealand | 1832 | as British Resident | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent james=Theme as resident=Attribute |
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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