Port Moresby, sentence 6
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.
Due to its population and outsized influence compared to other cities in Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby may be regarded as a primate city.
What happens: compare, regard · To what, where: outsized influence
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: 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 | Due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 population | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 Due | fixed |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 population | nmod:poss |
| 4 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 regarded | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 influence | cc |
| 6 | outsized | outsized | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 influence | amod |
| 7 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 population | conj |
| 8 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 influence | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 cities | case |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cities | amod |
| 11 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 compared | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Guinea | case |
| 13 | Papua | Papua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Guinea | compound |
| 14 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Guinea | compound |
| 15 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cities | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Port | punct |
| 17 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Guinea | conj |
| 18 | Moresby | Moresby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Port | flat |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 regarded | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 regarded | aux:pass |
| 21 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 city | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 24 | primate | primate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 city | compound |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 regarded | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 regarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | participle | outsized influence not said here | to other cities in Papua New Guinea and Port | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | regard | may · passive | due ˈmɔərzbi's population and outsized influence; as a primate city | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: as city=Value |
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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