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title: Aerial surveys in the 1950s found further inhabited valleys in the h… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: Aerial surveys in the 1950s found further inhabited valleys in the highlands. Who acts: Aerial surveys. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 117

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From Wikipedia, [«Papua New Guinea»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea), 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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Aerial surveys in the 1950s found further inhabited valleys in the highlands.

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**Who acts:** Aerial surveys · **What happens:** find, inhabit · **To what, where:** inhabited valleys, highlands

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Papua New Guinea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aerial surveys), 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:Papua_New_Guinea:117
# text = Aerial surveys in the 1950s found further inhabited valleys in the highlands.
1	Aerial	aerial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	surveys	survey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	1950s	1950	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	further	further	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	highlands	highland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Aerial surveys in the 1950s | inhabited valleys |  | the highlands |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Topic |
| 2 | **inhabit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | further *property* | tree rules |

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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, «Papua New Guinea», 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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