Papua New Guinea, sentence 126
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.
Bougainville was geographically close to the British Solomon Islands, and its people are more culturally linked to those of the Solomon Islands than to others in the territory.
Who acts: Bougainville, people · What happens: be, link
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 (Bougainville, people), 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 | Bougainville | Bougainville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 close | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 close | cop |
| 3 | geographically | geographically | ADV | _ | 4 close | advmod |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Islands | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Islands | det |
| 7 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Islands | amod |
| 8 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Islands | compound |
| 9 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 close | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 more | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 more | cc |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 people | nmod:poss |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 more | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 more | cop |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 close | conj |
| 16 | culturally | culturally | ADV | _ | 17 linked | advmod |
| 17 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 more | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 those | case |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 linked | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Islands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Islands | det |
| 22 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Islands | compound |
| 23 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 those | nmod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 others | case |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 others | case |
| 26 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Islands | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 territory | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 territory | det |
| 29 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 others | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Bougainville | to the British Solomon Islands; close, geographically property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | resistance's people | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | link | participle | resistance's people not said here | to those of the Solomon Islands than others in the territory; culturally property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to that=Co-Patient |
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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