Port Moresby, sentence 124
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.
This was the first time that events at one games had been held in two cities.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: first time, two cities
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 (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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 held | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 held | nsubj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 games | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 games | nummod |
| 10 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 events | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 held | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 held | aux:pass |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cities | case |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 cities | nummod |
| 16 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 held | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | past · perfect · passive | the first time | two cities | events at one games nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in city=Location |
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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