Port Moresby, sentence 94
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.
Port Moresby refers to both the urbanised area of the National Capital District and more specifically to the main business area, known locally as "Town".
Who acts: Port · What happens: refer, urbanis, know · To what, where: main business area
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 (Port), 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 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 refers | nsubj |
| 2 | Moresby | Moresby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Port | flat |
| 3 | refers | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 area | case |
| 5 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 8 area | cc:preconj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 area | det |
| 7 | urbanised | urbanis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 area | amod |
| 8 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 refers | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 District | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 District | det |
| 11 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 District | amod |
| 12 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 District | compound |
| 13 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 area | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 area | cc |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 specifically | advmod |
| 16 | specifically | specifically | ADV | _ | 21 area | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 area | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 area | det |
| 19 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 area | amod |
| 20 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 area | compound |
| 21 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 area | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 known | punct |
| 23 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 area | acl |
| 24 | locally | locally | ADV | _ | 23 known | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 Town | case |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Town | punct |
| 27 | Town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 known | obl |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Town | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | present | Port | to the urbanised area of the National Capital District and the main business area | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to area=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | urbanis | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | know | participle | the main business area not said here | as Town; locally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as town=Attribute |
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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