Papua New Guinea, sentence 526
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.
These national improvements in child mortality mostly reflect improvement in rural areas, with little change or slight worsening in some urban areas.
Who acts: national improvements, little change · What happens: reflect, worsen · To what, where: improvement, rural areas, urban areas
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 (national improvements, little change), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 improvements | det |
| 2 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 improvements | amod |
| 3 | improvements | improvement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reflect | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mortality | case |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mortality | compound |
| 6 | mortality | mortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 improvements | nmod |
| 7 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 8 reflect | advmod |
| 8 | reflect | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | improvement | improvement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reflect | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 areas | case |
| 11 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 areas | amod |
| 12 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reflect | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 change | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 change | case |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 change | amod |
| 16 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reflect | parataxis |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 slight | cc |
| 18 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 change | conj |
| 19 | worsening | worsen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 change | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 areas | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 areas | det |
| 22 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 areas | amod |
| 23 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 worsening | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reflect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | present | this national improvements in child mortality | improvement | rural areas | little change parataxis; mostly property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | worsen | gerund | little change not said here | some urban areas | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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