Papua New Guinea, sentence 65
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.
Sweet potato largely supplanted the previous staple, taro, and led to significant population growth in the highlands.
What happens: supplant, lead · To what, where: 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: 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 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 potato | amod |
| 2 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 supplanted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 4 supplanted | advmod |
| 4 | supplanted | supplant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 staple | det |
| 6 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 staple | amod |
| 7 | staple | staple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 supplanted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taro | punct |
| 9 | taro | taro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 staple | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 led | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 led | cc |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 supplanted | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 growth | case |
| 14 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 growth | amod |
| 15 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 growth | compound |
| 16 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 led | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 highlands | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 highlands | det |
| 19 | highlands | highland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 growth | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 supplanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | supplant | participle · passive | Sweet potato | the previous staple and taro obj; largely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | to significant population growth in the highlands | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to growth=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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