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title: This responsibility for services is thought to contribute to high le… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: This responsibility for services is thought to contribute to high levels of absenteeism in parliament, and thus means MPs are not able to effectively act as lawmakers within the Westminster system of government. Who acts: MPs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 274

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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 responsibility for services is thought to contribute to high levels of absenteeism in parliament, and thus means MPs are not able to effectively act as lawmakers within the Westminster system of government.

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**Who acts:** MPs · **What happens:** think, contribute, mean, not be, act · **To what, where:** responsibility, high levels · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (MPs), 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:274
# text = This responsibility for services is thought to contribute to high levels of absenteeism in parliament, and thus means MPs are not able to effectively act as lawmakers within the Westminster system of government.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	contribute	contribute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	levels	level	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	absenteeism	absenteeism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	MPs	mp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	effectively	effectively	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	lawmakers	lawmaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	within	within	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Westminster	Westminster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | this responsibility for services |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **contribute** | to-infinitive |  |  | high levels of absenteeism in parliament |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to level=Recipient |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | MPs |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **act** | to-infinitive | MPs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as lawmakers; within the Westminster system of government; effectively *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as lawmaker=Attribute |

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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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