Papua New Guinea, sentence 537
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.
Indigenous languages are classified into two large groups, Austronesian languages and Papuan, although "Papuan" is a group of convenience for local non-Austronesian languages, rather than defining any linguistic relationships.
Who acts: Papuan · What happens: classify, be, define · To what, where: Indigenous languages, two large groups, group, linguistic relationships
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 (Papuan), 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 | Indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 languages | amod |
| 2 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 classified | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 classified | aux:pass |
| 4 | classified | classify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 groups | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 groups | nummod |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 groups | amod |
| 8 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 classified | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 languages | punct |
| 10 | Austronesian | austronesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 languages | amod |
| 11 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 groups | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Papuan | cc |
| 13 | Papuan | Papuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 groups | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 group | punct |
| 15 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 21 group | mark |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Papuan | punct |
| 17 | Papuan | Papuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 group | nsubj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Papuan | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 group | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 group | det |
| 21 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 classified | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 convenience | case |
| 23 | convenience | convenience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 group | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 languages | case |
| 25 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 languages | amod |
| 26 | non-Austronesian | non-austronesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 languages | amod |
| 27 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 classified | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 defining | punct |
| 29 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 31 defining | cc |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 rather | fixed |
| 31 | defining | define | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 classified | conj |
| 32 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 relationships | det |
| 33 | linguistic | linguistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 relationships | amod |
| 34 | relationships | relationship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 defining | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 classified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | classify | present · passive | Indigenous languages | into two large groups and Austronesian languages and Papuan goal; for local non-Austronesian languages | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme into group=Goal | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Papuan | a group | of convenience | tree rules | |||
| 3 | define | gerund | any linguistic relationships | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=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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