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title: New Zealand is a predominantly urban country, with % of the populati… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: New Zealand is a predominantly urban country, with % of the population living in urban areas and % in the seven cities with populations exceeding 100,000. Who acts: New Zealand, population, populations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Zealand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Zealand, sentence 299

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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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New Zealand is a predominantly urban country, with % of the population living in urban areas and % in the seven cities with populations exceeding 100,000.

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**Who acts:** New Zealand, population, populations · **What happens:** be, live, exceed · **To what, where:** urban country, urban areas, 100,000

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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, population, populations), 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:299
# text = New Zealand is a predominantly urban country, with % of the population living in urban areas and % in the seven cities with populations exceeding 100,000.
1	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
2	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	predominantly	predominantly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	populations	population	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | New Zealand | a urban country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | the population *not said here* |  |  | urban areas |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location |
| 3 | **exceed** | gerund | populations *not said here* | 100,000 |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot 100000=Theme |

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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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