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title: Australia took over the administration of the Territory of Papua (pr… — Australia · tree and pragmatics
description: Australia took over the administration of the Territory of Papua (previously British New Guinea) in 1905 and of the Territory of New Guinea (formerly German New Guinea) in 1920. Who acts: Australia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Australia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Australia, sentence 92

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From Wikipedia, [«Australia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Australia took over the administration of the Territory of Papua (previously British New Guinea) in 1905 and of the Territory of New Guinea (formerly German New Guinea) in 1920.

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**Who acts:** Australia · **What happens:** take over, administer · **To what, where:** administration, 1905, Territory

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Australia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Australia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Australia:92
# text = Australia took over the administration of the Territory of Papua (previously British New Guinea) in 1905 and of the Territory of New Guinea (formerly German New Guinea) in 1920.
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Territory	Territory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Papua	Papua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1905	1905	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Territory	Territory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	1920	1920	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take over** | past | Australia | the administration of the Territory of Papua |  | 1905 of the Territory of New Guinea |  | in 1920 | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent administration=Theme |
| 2 | **administer** |  |  | the Territory of Papua |  |  |  |  | nom administration «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Australia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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