Port Moresby, sentence 67
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 September 1975, Papua New Guinea became an independent country with Port Moresby as its capital city.
Who acts: Papua · What happens: become · To what, where: independent country
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 (Papua), 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 September | case |
| 2 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 became | obl |
| 3 | 1975 | 1975 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 September | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 September | punct |
| 5 | Papua | Papua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 became | nsubj |
| 6 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Guinea | compound |
| 7 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Papua | conj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 10 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 country | amod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Port | case |
| 13 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 country | nmod |
| 14 | Moresby | Moresby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Port | flat |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 city | nmod:poss |
| 17 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 city | compound |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Papua and New Guinea | a independent country with Port | september | as country's capital city | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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