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title: During the 1980s, New Zealand underwent major economic changes that… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: During the 1980s, New Zealand underwent major economic changes that transformed it from a protectionist to a liberalised free-trade economy. Who acts: New Zealand, underwent major economic changes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Zealand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Zealand, sentence 19

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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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During the 1980s, New Zealand underwent major economic changes that transformed it from a protectionist to a liberalised free-trade economy.

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**Who acts:** New Zealand, underwent major economic changes · **What happens:** change, transform, liberalis · **To what, where:** power, protectionist

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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 (New Zealand, underwent major economic changes), 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:19
# text = During the 1980s, New Zealand underwent major economic changes that transformed it from a protectionist to a liberalised free-trade economy.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	underwent	underwent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	transformed	transform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	protectionist	protectionist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	liberalised	liberalis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
20	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** |  | New Zealand |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **transform** | past | underwent major economic changes | power |  | a protectionist |  | to a liberalised trade economy | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient from protectionist=Initial\_State |
| 3 | **liberalis** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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