Papua New Guinea, sentence 196
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.
In 2011, there was a constitutional crisis between the parliament-elect Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill (voted into office by a large majority of MPs), and Somare, who was deemed by the supreme court to retain office.
Who acts: constitutional crisis, supreme court · What happens: be, vote, deem, retain · To what, where: 2011, Peter, office, Somare
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 (constitutional crisis, supreme court), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2011 | case |
| 2 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 was | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2011 | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crisis | det |
| 7 | constitutional | constitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crisis | amod |
| 8 | crisis | crisis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 elect | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 elect | det |
| 11 | parliament | parliament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 elect | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 parliament | punct |
| 13 | elect | elect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crisis | nmod |
| 14 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 15 Minister | compound |
| 15 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 elect | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Peter | punct |
| 17 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 elect | appos |
| 18 | O'Neill | O'Neill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Peter | flat |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 voted | punct |
| 20 | voted | vote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Peter | acl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 office | case |
| 22 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 voted | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 majority | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 majority | det |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 majority | amod |
| 26 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 voted | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 MPs | case |
| 28 | MPs | mp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 majority | nmod |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 voted | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Somare | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Somare | cc |
| 32 | Somare | Somare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Peter | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 deemed | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 deemed | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 deemed | aux:pass |
| 36 | deemed | deem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 Somare | acl |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 court | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 court | det |
| 39 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 court | amod |
| 40 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 deemed | obl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 retain | mark |
| 42 | retain | retain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 deemed | advcl |
| 43 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 retain | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a constitutional crisis between the parliament elect | 2011; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2011=Location | ||||
| 2 | vote | participle | Peter and Somare not said here | office | by a large majority of MPs | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | deem | past · passive | the supreme court | Somare | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | retain | to-infinitive | the supreme court not said here | office | 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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