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title: This has created an incentive for newly elected politicians to seek… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: This has created an incentive for newly elected politicians to seek as much personal advantage as possible within their term. Who acts: politicians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 258

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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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This has created an incentive for newly elected politicians to seek as much personal advantage as possible within their term.

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**Who acts:** politicians · **What happens:** create, elect, seek, term · **To what, where:** This, much personal advantage

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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 (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:258
# text = This has created an incentive for newly elected politicians to seek as much personal advantage as possible within their term.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	incentive	incentive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | present · perfect · passive |  | This |  |  |  | for elected politicians; a incentive *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive |  | much personal advantage |  |  |  | within politicians's term | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme |
| 4 | **term** |  | politicians *= politician* |  |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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