Papua New Guinea, sentence 158
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.
Although an August 1976 agreement with the national government resolved the initial declaration of independence, the issue of Bougainville persisted past independence.
Who acts: August agreement, issue · What happens: resolve, persist, declare, issue · To what, where: initial declaration, independence, Bougainville
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 (August agreement, issue), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 10 resolved | mark |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 agreement | det |
| 3 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 agreement | compound |
| 4 | 1976 | 1976 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 August | flat |
| 5 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 resolved | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 government | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 government | det |
| 8 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 government | amod |
| 9 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agreement | nmod |
| 10 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 persisted | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 declaration | det |
| 12 | initial | initial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 declaration | amod |
| 13 | declaration | declaration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 resolved | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 independence | case |
| 15 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 declaration | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 resolved | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 issue | det |
| 18 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 persisted | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Bougainville | case |
| 20 | Bougainville | Bougainville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 issue | nmod |
| 21 | persisted | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | past | past | ADP | _ | 23 independence | case |
| 23 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 persisted | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 persisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | a August agreement with the national government | the initial declaration of independence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | persist | past | the issue of Bougainville | past independence | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | declare | independence | nom declaration «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | issue | Bougainville | nom issue «cognition transitive»: of=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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