Papua New Guinea, sentence 573
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.
Local in-group relations are a strong component of the wantok system, and so treatment by individuals of those in their communities will often differ from the way they treat those of other communities.
Who acts: Local group relations, treatment, relations, individuals · What happens: be, differ, treat · To what, where: strong component, way
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 (Local group relations, treatment, relations, individuals), 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 | Local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 relations | amod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 group | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 in | punct |
| 4 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 relations | compound |
| 5 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 component | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 component | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 component | det |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 component | amod |
| 9 | component | component | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 system | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 system | det |
| 12 | wantok | wantok | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 system | compound |
| 13 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 component | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 differ | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 differ | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 differ | advmod |
| 17 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 differ | nsubj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 individuals | case |
| 19 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 treatment | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 those | case |
| 21 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 individuals | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 communities | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 communities | nmod:poss |
| 24 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 those | nmod |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 differ | aux |
| 26 | often | often | ADV | _ | 27 differ | advmod |
| 27 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 component | parataxis |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 differ | obl |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 treat | nsubj |
| 32 | treat | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 way | acl:relcl |
| 33 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 32 treat | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 communities | case |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 communities | amod |
| 36 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 those | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 component | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Local group relations | a strong component | of the wantok system | tree rules | |||
| 2 | differ | future | treatment by individuals of those in relations's communities | from the way; often property | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from way=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | treat | present | relations = relation | the way | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | treat | individuals of those in relations's communities | nom treatment «act transitive»: by=agent |
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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