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title: Voting often occurs along tribal lines, an issue exacerbated by poli… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: Voting often occurs along tribal lines, an issue exacerbated by politicians who might be able to win off the small vote share provided by a unified tribe. Who acts: Voting, politicians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 251

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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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Voting often occurs along tribal lines, an issue exacerbated by politicians who might be able to win off the small vote share provided by a unified tribe.

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**Who acts:** Voting, politicians · **What happens:** occur, exacerbate, be, win off, provide · **To what, where:** tribal lines, issue, small vote share

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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 (Voting, politicians), 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:251
# text = Voting often occurs along tribal lines, an issue exacerbated by politicians who might be able to win off the small vote share provided by a unified tribe.
1	Voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	tribal	tribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	exacerbated	exacerbate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	unified	unified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | Voting |  |  | tribal lines and a issue |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along line=Location |
| 2 | **exacerbate** | participle |  | a issue *not said here* |  |  |  | by politicians | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | might | politicians |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **win off** | to-infinitive | politicians *not said here* | the small vote share |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Eventuality |
| 5 | **provide** | participle |  | the small vote share *not said here* |  |  |  | by a unified tribe | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |

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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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