Papua New Guinea, sentence 200

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.

Liquefied natural gas exports began in 2014, however falling prices as well as lower oil prices meant that government revenue was lower than expected.

Who acts: Liquefied gas exports, lower oil prices, government revenue · What happens: liquefy, begin, fall, mean, be, expect · To what, where: 2014, prices · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Liquefied gas exports, lower oil prices, government revenue), 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	Liquefied	liquefy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 exports	amod
2	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gas	amod
3	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exports	compound
4	exports	export	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 2014	case
7	2014	2014	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 began	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 falling	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	10 falling	advmod
10	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 began	advcl
11	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 falling	obj
12	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	18 meant	cc
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 as	fixed
14	as	as	ADP	_	12 as	fixed
15	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 prices	amod
16	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 prices	compound
17	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 meant	nsubj
18	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 falling	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 lower	mark
20	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 revenue	compound
21	revenue	revenue	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lower	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lower	cop
23	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 meant	ccomp
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 expected	mark
25	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 lower	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	liquefy	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	begin	past	Liquefied gas exports		2014		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	fall	gerund	Liquefied gas exports not said here	prices		however property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient price=Result
4	mean	past	lower oil prices				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	government revenue			low property	tree rules
6	expect	participle	government revenue not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Papua New Guinea», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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The tree

Pragmatics

Papua New Guinea, sentence 200