Port Moresby, sentence 59
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.
During World War II, some Papuan men enlisted in the Papua Infantry Battalion and others as carriers over trails and rough terrains (porters) as supply support to Allied and Japanese armies during long jungle marches.
Who acts: Papuan men, long jungle · What happens: enlist, ally, march · To what, where: Papua Infantry Battalion
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 (Papuan men, long jungle), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 War | case |
| 2 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 War | compound |
| 3 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 enlisted | obl |
| 4 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 3 War | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 War | punct |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 men | det |
| 7 | Papuan | papuan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 enlisted | nsubj |
| 9 | enlisted | enlist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Battalion | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Battalion | det |
| 12 | Papua | Papua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Battalion | compound |
| 13 | Infantry | Infantry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Battalion | compound |
| 14 | Battalion | Battalion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 enlisted | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 others | cc |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Battalion | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 carriers | case |
| 18 | carriers | carrier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 enlisted | obl |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 trails | case |
| 20 | trails | trail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 enlisted | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 terrains | cc |
| 22 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 terrains | amod |
| 23 | terrains | terrain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 trails | conj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 porters | punct |
| 25 | porters | porter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 terrains | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 porters | punct |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 support | case |
| 28 | supply | supply | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 support | amod |
| 29 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enlisted | obl |
| 30 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 31 Allied | mark |
| 31 | Allied | ally | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 enlisted | advcl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 armies | cc |
| 33 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 armies | amod |
| 34 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Allied | conj |
| 35 | during | during | ADP | _ | 38 marches | mark |
| 36 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 jungle | amod |
| 37 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 marches | nsubj |
| 38 | marches | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 Allied | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 enlisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enlist | past | some Papuan men | the Papua Infantry Battalion and others | during World War | as carriers; over trails and rough terrains; as supply support | vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as carrier=Attribute | ||
| 2 | ally | participle | some Papuan men not said here | Japanese armies conj | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | march | present | long jungle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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