Papua New Guinea, sentence 485
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.
Freehold title (also known as fee simple) can only be held by Papua New Guinean citizens.
Who acts: Papua Guinean citizens · What happens: know, hold · To what, where: Freehold title
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 Guinean citizens), 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 | Freehold | freehold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 title | compound |
| 2 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 known | advmod |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 title | acl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 fee | case |
| 7 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obl |
| 8 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fee | amod |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 held | aux |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 held | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 held | aux:pass |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 citizens | case |
| 15 | Papua | Papua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 citizens | compound |
| 16 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Papua | flat |
| 17 | Guinean | guinean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 citizens | amod |
| 18 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 held | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | Freehold title not said here | as fee | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as fee=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hold | can · passive | Papua Guinean citizens | Freehold title | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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