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title: Potatoes provided a reliable food surplus, which enabled longer and… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: Potatoes provided a reliable food surplus, which enabled longer and more sustained military campaigns. Who acts: Potatoes, reliable food surplus. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Zealand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Zealand, sentence 55

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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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Potatoes provided a reliable food surplus, which enabled longer and more sustained military campaigns.

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**Who acts:** Potatoes, reliable food surplus · **What happens:** provide, enable, sustain · **To what, where:** reliable food surplus, military campaigns

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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 (Potatoes, reliable food surplus), 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:55
# text = Potatoes provided a reliable food surplus, which enabled longer and more sustained military campaigns.
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	reliable	reliable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	surplus	surplus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	enabled	enable	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	sustained	sustain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
14	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	campaigns	campaign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past | Potatoes | a reliable food surplus |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition surplus=Theme |
| 2 | **enable** | past | a reliable food surplus |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sustain** | participle | a reliable food surplus *not said here* | military campaigns |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent campaign=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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