Port Moresby, sentence 33
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.
In May 1884, the Earl of Derby requested the colonies to provide £15,000 annually for the administration of New Guinea, which they agreed.
Who acts: Earl, New Guinea · What happens: request, provide, agree, administer · To what, where: colonies, New Guinea
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 (Earl, New Guinea), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 May | case |
| 2 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 requested | obl |
| 3 | 1884 | 1884 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 May | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 May | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Earl | det |
| 6 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 requested | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Derby | case |
| 8 | Derby | Derby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Earl | nmod |
| 9 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 colonies | det |
| 11 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 requested | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 provide | mark |
| 13 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 requested | advcl |
| 14 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 13 provide | obj |
| 15 | 15,000 | 15000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 £ | nummod |
| 16 | annually | annually | ADV | _ | 13 provide | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 administration | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 administration | det |
| 19 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 provide | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Guinea | case |
| 21 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Guinea | compound |
| 22 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 administration | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 agreed | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 agreed | nsubj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 agreed | nsubj |
| 26 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Guinea | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 requested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | past | the Earl of Derby | the colonies | may | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent colony=Recipient | |||
| 2 | provide | to-infinitive | the Earl of Derby not said here | for the administration of New Guinea; annually property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition £=Theme for administration=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | New Guinea | colonies = colony nsubj | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | administer | New Guinea | nom administration «act transitive»: of=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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