Papua New Guinea, sentence 328
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.
To the west of this strait is the shallow Arafura Sea, while to its east is the much deeper Coral Sea.
What happens: be · To what, where: shallow Arafura Sea, much Coral Sea
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 west | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 west | det |
| 3 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Sea | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 strait | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 strait | det |
| 6 | strait | strait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 west | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Sea | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sea | det |
| 9 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Sea | amod |
| 10 | Arafura | Arafura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sea | compound |
| 11 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Sea | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 Sea | mark |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 east | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 east | nmod:poss |
| 16 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Sea | obl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 Sea | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sea | det |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Sea | amod |
| 20 | deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 Sea | advmod |
| 21 | Coral | Coral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Sea | compound |
| 22 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sea | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the shallow Arafura Sea and the much Coral Sea | to the west of this strait | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the much Coral Sea | to country's east; deep property | tree rules |
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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