Papua New Guinea, sentence 406
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 country is part of the Malesia biogeographical area, with its plant species more similar to those of East Asia than Australasia, although there are exceptions, especially at higher altitudes.
Who acts: country, exceptions · What happens: be · To what, where: part
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 (country, exceptions), 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 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 part | cop |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 area | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 area | det |
| 7 | Malesia | Malesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 area | compound |
| 8 | biogeographical | biogeographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 area | amod |
| 9 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 species | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 species | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 species | nmod:poss |
| 13 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 species | compound |
| 14 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 part | nmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 similar | advmod |
| 16 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 species | amod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 those | case |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 similar | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Asia | case |
| 20 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Asia | compound |
| 21 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 those | nmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 Australasia | case |
| 23 | Australasia | Australasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 those | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 are | punct |
| 25 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 27 are | mark |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 are | expl |
| 27 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 part | parataxis |
| 28 | exceptions | exception | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 are | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 altitudes | punct |
| 30 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 33 altitudes | advmod |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 altitudes | case |
| 32 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 altitudes | amod |
| 33 | altitudes | altitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 exceptions | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the country | part | of the Malesia biogeographical area; with country's plant species | tree rules | |||
| 2 | does | present | exceptions and higher altitudes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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