Port Moresby, sentence 78
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 1980, the census return registered a population of 120,000; by 1990, this had increased to 195,000.
Who acts: census return · What happens: register, increase · To what, where: population, 1980, this
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 (census return), 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 1980 | case |
| 2 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 registered | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1980 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 return | det |
| 5 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 return | compound |
| 6 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 registered | nsubj |
| 7 | registered | register | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 population | det |
| 9 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 registered | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 120,000 | case |
| 11 | 120,000 | 120000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 population | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 increased | punct |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 1990 | case |
| 14 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 increased | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 1990 | punct |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 increased | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 increased | aux |
| 18 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 registered | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 195,000 | case |
| 20 | 195,000 | 195,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 increased | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 registered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | register | past | the census return | a population of 120,000 | 1980 | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Theme | |||
| 2 | increase | past · perfect · passive | this | by 1990; to 195,000 result | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: subject=Patient by 1990=Extent to 195,000=Result |
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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