Papua New Guinea, sentence 76
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.
The German New Guinea Company had initially tried to develop plantations, but when this was not successful began to engage in barter trade.
Who acts: this · What happens: try, develop, not be, begin, engage · To what, where: Guinea Company, plantations, barter trade
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 (this), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Company | det |
| 2 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Guinea | compound |
| 3 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Guinea | compound |
| 4 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Company | compound |
| 5 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tried | aux |
| 7 | initially | initially | ADV | _ | 8 tried | advmod |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 develop | mark |
| 10 | develop | develop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 develop | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 successful | mark |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 successful | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 successful | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 successful | advmod |
| 18 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 began | advcl |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tried | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 engage | mark |
| 21 | engage | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 trade | case |
| 23 | barter | barter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trade | compound |
| 24 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 engage | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · perfect · passive | the Guinea Company | initially property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | develop not said to happen | to-infinitive | plantations | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plantation=Product | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | this | successful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | engage | to-infinitive | in barter trade goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in trade=Goal |
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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