Papua New Guinea, sentence 258
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.
This has created an incentive for newly elected politicians to seek as much personal advantage as possible within their term.
Who acts: politicians · What happens: create, elect, seek, term · To what, where: This, much personal advantage
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 (politicians), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 created | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 created | aux |
| 3 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 incentive | det |
| 5 | incentive | incentive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 created | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 politicians | case |
| 7 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 8 elected | advmod |
| 8 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 politicians | amod |
| 9 | politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 created | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 seek | mark |
| 11 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 created | advcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 advantage | amod |
| 14 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 advantage | amod |
| 15 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seek | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 possible | mark |
| 17 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 advantage | advcl |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 20 term | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 term | nmod:poss |
| 20 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seek | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | present · perfect · passive | This | for elected politicians; a incentive obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | elect | participle | newly property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | much personal advantage | within politicians's term | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme | ||||
| 4 | term | politicians = politician | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=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.
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