Papua New Guinea, sentence 254
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.
Bloc voting is practiced by some communities, especially in the highlands.
Who acts: communities · What happens: practice · To what, where: Bloc voting
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 (communities), 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 | Bloc | bloc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 voting | compound |
| 2 | voting | voting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 practiced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 practiced | aux:pass |
| 4 | practiced | practice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 communities | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 communities | det |
| 7 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 practiced | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 highlands | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 12 highlands | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 highlands | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 highlands | det |
| 12 | highlands | highland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 practiced | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 practiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | practice | present · passive | some communities | Bloc voting | the highlands conj | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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