Papua New Guinea, sentence 117
From Wikipedia, «Papua New Guinea», 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.
Aerial surveys in the 1950s found further inhabited valleys in the highlands.
Who acts: Aerial surveys · What happens: find, inhabit · To what, where: inhabited valleys, highlands
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Papua New Guinea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aerial surveys), 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 | Aerial | aerial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 surveys | amod |
| 2 | surveys | survey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1950s | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 1950s | det |
| 5 | 1950s | 1950 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 2 surveys | nmod |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | further | further | ADV | _ | 8 inhabited | advmod |
| 8 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 valleys | amod |
| 9 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 highlands | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 highlands | det |
| 12 | highlands | highland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 valleys | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Aerial surveys in the 1950s | inhabited valleys | the highlands | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Topic | |||
| 2 | inhabit | participle | further property | tree rules |
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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