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title: Subsequently, a series of conflicts between the colonial government… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: Subsequently, a series of conflicts between the colonial government and Māori tribes resulted in the alienation and confiscation of large amounts of Māori land. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Zealand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Zealand, sentence 11

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From Wikipedia, [«New Zealand»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand), 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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Subsequently, a series of conflicts between the colonial government and Māori tribes resulted in the alienation and confiscation of large amounts of Māori land.

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**What happens:** result, confiscate, amount · **To what, where:** Māori tribes, alienation, series, large amounts, Māori land

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «New Zealand». 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.

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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:New_Zealand:11
# text = Subsequently, a series of conflicts between the colonial government and Māori tribes resulted in the alienation and confiscation of large amounts of Māori land.
1	Subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	conflicts	conflict	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Māori	māori	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	alienation	alienation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	confiscation	confiscation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Māori	māori	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **result** | participle |  | Māori tribes *not said here* |  | the alienation and confiscation of large amounts of Māori land |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in alienation=Location |
| 3 | **confiscate** |  |  | large amounts of Māori land |  |  |  |  | nom confiscation «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **amount** |  |  | Māori land |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession 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, «New Zealand», 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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