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title: The House of Representatives is democratically elected, and a govern… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: The House of Representatives is democratically elected, and a government is formed from the party or coalition with the majority of seats. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Zealand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Zealand, sentence 156

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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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The House of Representatives is democratically elected, and a government is formed from the party or coalition with the majority of seats.

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**What happens:** elect, form · **To what, where:** House, government, party

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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:156
# text = The House of Representatives is democratically elected, and a government is formed from the party or coalition with the majority of seats.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Representatives	Representative	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	democratically	democratically	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	coalition	coalition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elect** | present · passive |  | the House of Representatives |  |  |  | democratically *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | present · passive |  | a government |  | the party with the majority of seats or coalition |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from party=Material |

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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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