Papua New Guinea, sentence 568
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.
A constitutional amendment in March 2025 recognised Papua New Guinea as a Christian country, with specific mention of "God, the Father; Jesus Christ, the Son; and Holy Spirit", and the Bible as a national symbol.
Who acts: constitutional amendment · What happens: recognise, mention · To what, where: Papua New Guinea, God
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 (constitutional amendment), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 amendment | det |
| 2 | constitutional | constitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 amendment | amod |
| 3 | amendment | amendment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recognised | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 March | case |
| 5 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 amendment | nmod |
| 6 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 March | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Papua | Papua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Guinea | compound |
| 9 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Guinea | compound |
| 10 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 recognised | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 13 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 country | amod |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recognised | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mention | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 mention | case |
| 17 | specific | specific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mention | amod |
| 18 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recognised | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 God | case |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 God | punct |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 mention | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Father | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Father | det |
| 24 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 God | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 Jesus | punct |
| 26 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 recognised | obl |
| 27 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Jesus | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Son | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Son | det |
| 30 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Jesus | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 Spirit | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Spirit | cc |
| 33 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Spirit | flat |
| 34 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 recognised | parataxis |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Spirit | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Bible | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Bible | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Bible | det |
| 39 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Spirit | conj |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 symbol | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 symbol | det |
| 42 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 symbol | amod |
| 43 | symbol | symbol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Bible | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | a constitutional amendment in March 2025 | Papua New Guinea | as a Christian country; Jesus and the Son obl; specific mention of God and the Father conj; Holy Spirit and the Bible as a national symbol parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mention | God and the Father | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=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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