Papua New Guinea, sentence 292
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 been an observer state in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) since 1976, followed later by special observer status in 1981.
Who acts: Papua, observer state · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: observer state, Association, 1981
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 (Papua, observer state), 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 | 8 state | nsubj |
| 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 | 8 state | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 state | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 state | det |
| 7 | observer | observer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 state | compound |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Association | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Association | det |
| 11 | Association | Association | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 state | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Nations | case |
| 13 | Southeast | Southeast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Nations | compound |
| 14 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Nations | amod |
| 15 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Association | nmod |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 ASEAN | punct |
| 17 | ASEAN | ASEAN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Nations | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 ASEAN | punct |
| 19 | since | since | ADP | _ | 20 1976 | case |
| 20 | 1976 | 1976 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 state | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 followed | punct |
| 22 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 state | acl:relcl |
| 23 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 followed | advmod |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 status | case |
| 25 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 status | amod |
| 26 | observer | observer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 status | compound |
| 27 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 followed | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 1981 | case |
| 29 | 1981 | 1981 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 followed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | Papua and New Guinea | a observer state | the Association of Southeast Asian Nations | since 1976 | tree rules | ||
| 2 | follow | past | a observer state not said here | 1981 | by special observer status; late property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by status=Location |
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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