Port Moresby, sentence 112
From Wikipedia, «Port Moresby», 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.
Continuing foreign demand for PNG's resources led the United States to set up an oil company that began to export in 2004.
Who acts: Continuing, oil company · What happens: continue, lead, set up, begin, export · To what, where: foreign demand, United States, oil company, 2004
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port Moresby». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Continuing, oil company), 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 | Continuing | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 led | csubj |
| 2 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 demand | amod |
| 3 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Continuing | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 resources | case |
| 5 | PNG | PNG | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 resources | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 PNG | case |
| 7 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Continuing | obl |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 States | det |
| 10 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 States | amod |
| 11 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 led | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 set | mark |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 led | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 company | det |
| 16 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 company | compound |
| 17 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 company | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 export | mark |
| 21 | export | export | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 2004 | case |
| 23 | 2004 | 2004 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 export | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | gerund | foreign demand | for PNG's resources | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent demand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | Continuing | the United States | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set up | to-infinitive | Continuing not said here | a oil company | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient company=Result | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | a oil company | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | export | to-infinitive | a oil company not said here | 2004 | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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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