Papua New Guinea, sentence 370
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.
While New Britain is mostly not volcanic, volcanic activity along its north and especially in the Gazelle Peninsula around Rabaul has created fertile soil.
What happens: not be, create · To what, where: volcanic activity
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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 Britain | mark |
| 2 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Britain | amod |
| 3 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 volcanic | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 volcanic | cop |
| 5 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 7 volcanic | advmod |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 volcanic | advmod |
| 7 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 activity | punct |
| 9 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 activity | amod |
| 10 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 created | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 north | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 north | nmod:poss |
| 13 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 activity | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Peninsula | cc |
| 15 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 19 Peninsula | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Peninsula | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Peninsula | det |
| 18 | Gazelle | Gazelle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Peninsula | compound |
| 19 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 north | conj |
| 20 | around | around | ADP | _ | 21 Rabaul | case |
| 21 | Rabaul | Rabaul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Peninsula | nmod |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 created | aux |
| 23 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 volcanic | conj |
| 24 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 soil | amod |
| 25 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 created | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 volcanic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | New Britain obl; mostly, volcanic property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | create | present · perfect · passive | volcanic activity along One's north and the Gazelle Peninsula around Rabaul | fertile soil obj | 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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