--- title: In 2011, there was a constitutional crisis between the parliament-el… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics description: In 2011, there was a constitutional crisis between the parliament-elect Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill (voted into office by a large majority of MPs), and Somare, who was deemed by the supreme court to retain office. Who acts: constitutional crisis, supreme court. 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In 2011, there was a constitutional crisis between the parliament-elect Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill (voted into office by a large majority of MPs), and Somare, who was deemed by the supreme court to retain office. **Who acts:** constitutional crisis, supreme court · **What happens:** be, vote, deem, retain · **To what, where:** 2011, Peter, office, Somare 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 (constitutional crisis, supreme court), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:196 # text = In 2011, there was a constitutional crisis between the parliament-elect Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill (voted into office by a large majority of MPs), and Somare, who was deemed by the supreme court to retain office. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2011 2011 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 constitutional constitutional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 crisis crisis NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 9 between between ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 parliament parliament NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 elect elect NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 14 Prime Prime PROPN NNP _ 15 compound _ _ 15 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 O'Neill O'Neill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 voted vote VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 majority majority NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 MPs mp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 Somare Somare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 deemed deem VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 supreme supreme ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 retain retain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 43 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a constitutional crisis between the parliament elect | | | 2011; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2011=Location | | 2 | **vote** | participle | | Peter and Somare *not said here* | | office | | by a large majority of MPs | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **deem** | past · passive | the supreme court | Somare | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute | | 4 | **retain** | to-infinitive | the supreme court *not said here* | office | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 195](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Papua_New_Guinea/195/) - next →: [sentence 197](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Papua_New_Guinea/197/) - ↑ back to [Papua New Guinea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Papua_New_Guinea/)