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title: The Māori language has recently undergone a process of revitalisatio… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: The Māori language has recently undergone a process of revitalisation, being declared one of New Zealand's official languages in 1987, and is spoken by 4.0% of the population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Zealand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Zealand, sentence 334

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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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The Māori language has recently undergone a process of revitalisation, being declared one of New Zealand's official languages in 1987, and is spoken by 4.0% of the population.

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**What happens:** undergo, declare, speak, process · **To what, where:** Māori language, one, revitalisation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:334
# text = The Māori language has recently undergone a process of revitalisation, being declared one of New Zealand's official languages in 1987, and is spoken by 4.0% of the population.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Māori	māori	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	undergone	undergo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	revitalisation	revitalisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
17	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1987	1987	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	4.0	4.0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undergo** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Māori language |  |  |  | a process of revitalisation *obj*; recently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | gerund · passive |  | one of New Zealand's official languages in 1987 |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: one=Attribute |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V» |
| 4 | **process** |  |  | revitalisation |  |  |  |  | nom process «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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