Port Moresby, sentence 17
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.
Captain John Moresby named the harbour in honour of his father Fairfax Moresby and called the anchorage off Paga Hill "Port Moresby" on his charts.
Who acts: John · What happens: name, call, honour, chart · To what, where: harbour, honour, anchorage, charts, father · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (John), 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 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 John | nmod:desc |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 named | nsubj |
| 3 | Moresby | Moresby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 John | flat |
| 4 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 harbour | det |
| 6 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 named | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 honour | case |
| 8 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 named | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 father | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 honour | nmod |
| 12 | Fairfax | Fairfax | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 father | appos |
| 13 | Moresby | Moresby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fairfax | flat |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 called | cc |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 named | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 anchorage | det |
| 17 | anchorage | anchorage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 Hill | case |
| 19 | Paga | Paga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Hill | compound |
| 20 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 called | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Moresby | punct |
| 22 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Moresby | compound |
| 23 | Moresby | Moresby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Hill | appos |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Moresby | punct |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 charts | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 charts | nmod:poss |
| 27 | charts | chart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 called | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past | John Captain | the harbour | honour of John's father | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harbour=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | past | John Captain not said here | the anchorage | John's charts | off Paga Hill | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anchorage=Recipient | ||
| 3 | honour | John's father | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | chart | John | nom chart «communication transitive»: poss=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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