Papua New Guinea, sentence 283
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.
Papua New Guinea has sought to maintain good relations with its neighbours Australia, Indonesia, and the Solomon Islands, while also building links to Asian countries to the north.
What happens: seek, maintain, build · To what, where: Papua, good relations, links
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: 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 | Papua | Papua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Guinea | compound |
| 3 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Papua | conj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sought | aux |
| 5 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 maintain | mark |
| 7 | maintain | maintain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sought | xcomp |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 relations | amod |
| 9 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 maintain | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 neighbours | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 maintain | obl |
| 13 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 neighbours | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Indonesia | punct |
| 15 | Indonesia | Indonesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Australia | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Islands | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Islands | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Islands | det |
| 19 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Islands | compound |
| 20 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 sought | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 building | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 building | mark |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 building | advmod |
| 24 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sought | conj |
| 25 | links | link | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 building | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 countries | case |
| 27 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 countries | amod |
| 28 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 building | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 north | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 north | det |
| 31 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 building | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present · perfect · passive | Papua and New Guinea | the Solomon Islands obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | maintain not said to happen | to-infinitive | good relations | with Media's neighbours | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent relation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | gerund | links | to Asian countries; to the north | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset link=Product |
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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