Papua New Guinea, sentence 274

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 responsibility for services is thought to contribute to high levels of absenteeism in parliament, and thus means MPs are not able to effectively act as lawmakers within the Westminster system of government.

Who acts: MPs · What happens: think, contribute, mean, not be, act · To what, where: responsibility, high levels · 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 (MPs), 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	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 responsibility	det
2	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj:pass
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 services	case
4	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 responsibility	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	aux:pass
6	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 contribute	mark
8	contribute	contribute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thought	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 levels	case
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 levels	amod
11	levels	level	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 contribute	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 absenteeism	case
13	absenteeism	absenteeism	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 levels	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 parliament	case
15	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 absenteeism	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 means	cc
18	thus	thus	ADV	_	19 means	advmod
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	parataxis
20	MPs	mp	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 able	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 able	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 able	advmod
23	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 means	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	26 act	mark
25	effectively	effectively	ADV	_	26 act	advmod
26	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	xcomp
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 lawmakers	case
28	lawmakers	lawmaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 act	obl
29	within	within	ADP	_	32 system	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 system	det
31	Westminster	Westminster	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 system	compound
32	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 act	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 government	case
34	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 system	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · passive		this responsibility for services			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	contribute	to-infinitive			high levels of absenteeism in parliament		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to level=Recipient
3	mean	present				thus property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	not is	present	MPs			able property	tree rules
5	act	to-infinitive	MPs not said here			as lawmakers; within the Westminster system of government; effectively property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as lawmaker=Attribute

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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Papua New Guinea, sentence 274