Papua New Guinea, sentence 60
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.
Portuguese traders introduced the South American sweet potato to the Moluccas.
Who acts: Portuguese traders · What happens: introduce · To what, where: South American sweet potato
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 (Portuguese traders), 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 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 traders | amod |
| 2 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 introduced | nsubj |
| 3 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 potato | det |
| 5 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 potato | compound |
| 6 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 potato | amod |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 potato | amod |
| 8 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 introduced | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Moluccas | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Moluccas | det |
| 11 | Moluccas | molucca | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 potato | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 introduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | past | Portuguese traders | the South American sweet potato | to the Moluccas | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent potato=Patient to molucca=Co-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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