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title: The British Government appointed James Busby as British Resident to… — New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: The British Government appointed James Busby as British Resident to New Zealand in 1832. Who acts: British Government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «New Zealand» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# New Zealand, sentence 59

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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 British Government appointed James Busby as British Resident to New Zealand in 1832.

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**Who acts:** British Government · **What happens:** appoint · **To what, where:** James, New Zealand, 1832

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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 (British Government), 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:59
# text = The British Government appointed James Busby as British Resident to New Zealand in 1832.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Government	Government	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	Busby	Busby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Resident	Resident	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
12	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1832	1832	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | past | the British Government | James | New Zealand | 1832 |  | as British Resident | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent james=Theme as resident=Attribute |

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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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