--- title: Poverty in New Zealand is characterised by growing income inequality… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics description: Poverty in New Zealand is characterised by growing income inequality; wealth in New Zealand is highly concentrated, with the top 1% of the population owning 16% of the country's wealth, and the richest 5% owning 38%, leaving a stark contrast where half the population, including state beneficiaries a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/New_Zealand/243/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [New Zealand](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/New_Zealand/) / 243 # New Zealand, sentence 243 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. Poverty in New Zealand is characterised by growing income inequality; wealth in New Zealand is highly concentrated, with the top 1% of the population owning 16% of the country's wealth, and the richest 5% owning 38%, leaving a stark contrast where half the population, including state beneficiaries and pensioners, receive less than $24,000. **Who acts:** population, state beneficiaries · **What happens:** characteris, grow, concentrate, own, leave, receive · **To what, where:** Poverty, income inequality, wealth, stark contrast 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 (population, state beneficiaries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:243 # text = Poverty in New Zealand is characterised by growing income inequality; wealth in New Zealand is highly concentrated, with the top 1% of the population owning 16% of the country's wealth, and the richest 5% owning 38%, leaving a stark contrast where half the population, including state beneficiaries and pensioners, receive less than $24,000. 1 Poverty Poverty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 4 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 characterised characteris VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 by by SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 9 income income NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 inequality inequality NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 12 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ _ 15 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 17 highly highly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 concentrated concentrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 24 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 owning own VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 richest rich ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 41 amod _ _ 40 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 42 owning own VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 acl _ _ 43 38 38 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 advcl _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 stark stark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 contrast contrast NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 50 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 51 advmod _ _ 51 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 53 det:predet _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 55 including including ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 compound _ _ 57 beneficiaries beneficiary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 appos _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 59 pensioners pensioner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 61 receive receive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 acl:relcl _ _ 62 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 64 advmod _ _ 63 than than ADP IN _ 62 fixed _ _ 64 $ $ SYM $ _ 61 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 24,000 24000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 64 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **characteris** | present · passive | | Poverty in New Zealand | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | gerund | | income inequality | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location inequality=Theme | | 3 | **concentrate** | present · passive | | wealth in New Zealand | | | | highly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **own** | gerund | the population *not said here* | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot %=Theme | | 5 | **own** | gerund | | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot %=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | gerund | | a stark contrast | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contrast=Theme | | 7 | **receive** | present | state beneficiaries and pensioners *not said here* | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent $=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 242](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/New_Zealand/242/) - next →: [sentence 244](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/New_Zealand/244/) - ↑ back to [New Zealand](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/New_Zealand/)