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title: However, the mine was seen as crucial for diversifying the economic… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the mine was seen as crucial for diversifying the economic base of Papua New Guinea from agriculture alone. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 127

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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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However, the mine was seen as crucial for diversifying the economic base of Papua New Guinea from agriculture alone.

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**What happens:** see, diversify · **To what, where:** mine, economic base, agriculture

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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: 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:127
# text = However, the mine was seen as crucial for diversifying the economic base of Papua New Guinea from agriculture alone.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	crucial	crucial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	diversifying	diversify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Papua	Papua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	agriculture	agriculture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | the mine |  |  |  | as crucial; however *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as crucial=Attribute |
| 2 | **diversify** | gerund |  | the economic base of Papua New Guinea |  | agriculture |  | alone *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent base=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, «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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