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title: A 2017 human rights report by the United States Department of State… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: A 2017 human rights report by the United States Department of State noted that the New Zealand government generally respected the rights of individuals, but voiced concerns regarding the social status of the Māori population. Who acts: 2017 human rights, States Department, Zealand government. A sent
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# New Zealand, sentence 176

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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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A 2017 human rights report by the United States Department of State noted that the New Zealand government generally respected the rights of individuals, but voiced concerns regarding the social status of the Māori population.

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**Who acts:** 2017 human rights, States Department, Zealand government · **What happens:** report, note, respect, voice, regard · **To what, where:** rights, concerns

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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: who acts (2017 human rights, States Department, Zealand government), 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:176
# text = A 2017 human rights report by the United States Department of State noted that the New Zealand government generally respected the rights of individuals, but voiced concerns regarding the social status of the Māori population.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	report	report	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	compound	_	_
10	Department	Department	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	noted	note	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
17	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	respected	respect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	individuals	individual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	voiced	voice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	concerns	concern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | present | a 2017 human rights |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **note** | past | the States Department of State |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **respect** | past | the Zealand government | the rights of individuals |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus |
| 4 | **voice** *speech: other* | past | the Zealand government *not said here* | concerns |  |  |  | regard the social status of the Māori population | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent concern=Topic |
| 5 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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