Papua New Guinea, sentence 599
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.
One early band, Sanguma, formed in 1977 at the National Arts School and toured internationally.
What happens: form, tour · To what, where: Sanguma, 1977, One early band
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 band | nummod |
| 2 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 band | amod |
| 3 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sanguma | punct |
| 5 | Sanguma | Sanguma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 band | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 formed | punct |
| 7 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Sanguma | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1977 | case |
| 9 | 1977 | 1977 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 formed | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 School | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 School | det |
| 12 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Arts | amod |
| 13 | Arts | Art | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 School | compound |
| 14 | School | School | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 formed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 toured | cc |
| 16 | toured | tour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 formed | conj |
| 17 | internationally | internationally | ADV | _ | 16 toured | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 band | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | participle | Sanguma not said here | 1977 | at the Arts School | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1977=Location | |||
| 2 | tour | past | internationally property | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=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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