Papua New Guinea, sentence 50
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.
As Dutch authorities become more interested in New Guinea, they confirmed and extended the sultanate's claims over western New Guinea.
Who acts: Dutch authorities, authorities, sultanate · What happens: become, confirm, extend, claim · To what, where: claims, western New Guinea
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 (Dutch authorities, authorities, sultanate), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 become | mark |
| 2 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 authorities | amod |
| 3 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 become | nsubj |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 confirmed | advcl |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 interested | advmod |
| 6 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 become | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Guinea | case |
| 8 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Guinea | compound |
| 9 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 interested | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 confirmed | nsubj |
| 12 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 extended | cc |
| 14 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 confirmed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sultanate | det |
| 16 | sultanate | sultanate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 claims | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 sultanate | case |
| 18 | claims | claim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 extended | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 Guinea | case |
| 20 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Guinea | amod |
| 21 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Guinea | compound |
| 22 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 claims | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 confirmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | Dutch authorities | interested property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | confirm | past | authorities = authority | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | extend | past | authorities = authority not said here | the sultanate's claims | western New Guinea | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | |||
| 4 | claim | the sultanate | western New Guinea | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent over=place |
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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