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title: Following further legislation shortly afterwards three further provi… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: Following further legislation shortly afterwards three further provinces were created from three of the original six, leaving the country with nine provinces in 1862, each with a degree of autonomy under an elected superintendent. Who acts: further legislation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Zealand
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# New Zealand, sentence 181

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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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Following further legislation shortly afterwards three further provinces were created from three of the original six, leaving the country with nine provinces in 1862, each with a degree of autonomy under an elected superintendent.

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**Who acts:** further legislation · **What happens:** follow, create, leave, elect · **To what, where:** three further provinces, three, country, elected superintendent

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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 (further legislation), 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:181
# text = Following further legislation shortly afterwards three further provinces were created from three of the original six, leaving the country with nine provinces in 1862, each with a degree of autonomy under an elected superintendent.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	legislation	legislation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
5	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1862	1862	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	appos	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	autonomy	autonomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	superintendent	superintendent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **create** | past · passive | further legislation *not said here* | three further provinces |  | three of the original six |  | afterwards, shortly *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from three=Material |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | further legislation *not said here* | the country |  | a elected superintendent |  | with nine provinces in 1862 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent country=Theme under superintendent=Location |
| 4 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «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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