Papua New Guinea, sentence 347
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.
The depression continues into the waters east of the mainland, forming the New Britain Trench.
Who acts: depression · What happens: continue, form · To what, where: waters east, Britain Trench
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 (depression), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 depression | det |
| 2 | depression | depression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continues | nsubj |
| 3 | continues | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 east | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 east | det |
| 6 | waters | waters | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 east | amod |
| 7 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continues | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mainland | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mainland | det |
| 10 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 east | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forming | punct |
| 12 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 continues | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Trench | det |
| 14 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Britain | amod |
| 15 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Trench | compound |
| 16 | Trench | Trench | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 forming | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continues | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | present | the depression | the waters east of the mainland | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into east=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | form | gerund | the depression not said here | the Britain Trench | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trench=Theme |
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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