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title: The New Zealand Geographic Board discovered in 2009 that the names o… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: The New Zealand Geographic Board discovered in 2009 that the names of the North Island and South Island had never been formalised, and names and alternative names were formalised in 2013. Who acts: Zealand Geographic Board. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Zealand» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# New Zealand, sentence 38

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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 New Zealand Geographic Board discovered in 2009 that the names of the North Island and South Island had never been formalised, and names and alternative names were formalised in 2013.

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**Who acts:** Zealand Geographic Board · **What happens:** discover, not formalis, formalis, name · **To what, where:** 2009, names, 2013, North Island

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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 (Zealand Geographic Board), 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:38
# text = The New Zealand Geographic Board discovered in 2009 that the names of the North Island and South Island had never been formalised, and names and alternative names were formalised in 2013.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
3	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Geographic	Geographic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Board	Board	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	formalised	formalis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	alternative	alternative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	formalised	formalis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	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 | **discover** | past | the Zealand Geographic Board |  |  | 2009 |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **formalis** | past · perfect · passive |  | the names of the North Island and South Island |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **formalis** | past · passive |  | names and alternative names |  | 2013 |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | the North Island and South Island |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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