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title: Early European maps labelled the islands North (North Island), Middl… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: Early European maps labelled the islands North (North Island), Middle (South Island), and South (Stewart Island / Rakiura). Who acts: Early European maps. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Zealand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Zealand, sentence 36

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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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Early European maps labelled the islands North (North Island), Middle (South Island), and South (Stewart Island / Rakiura).

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**Who acts:** Early European maps · **What happens:** label · **To what, where:** islands

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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 (Early European maps), 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:36
# text = Early European maps labelled the islands North (North Island), Middle (South Island), and South (Stewart Island / Rakiura).
1	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	labelled	label	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Stewart	Stewart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	/	/	SYM	,	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Rakiura	Rakiura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **label** | past | Early European maps | the islands |  |  |  | South *obl* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent island=Destination |

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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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