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title: Papua New Guinea has sought to maintain good relations with its neig… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 283

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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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Papua New Guinea has sought to maintain good relations with its neighbours Australia, Indonesia, and the Solomon Islands, while also building links to Asian countries to the north.

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**What happens:** seek, maintain, build · **To what, where:** Papua, good relations, links

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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:283
# text = Papua New Guinea has sought to maintain good relations with its neighbours Australia, Indonesia, and the Solomon Islands, while also building links to Asian countries to the north.
1	Papua	Papua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
25	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · perfect · passive |  | Papua and New Guinea |  |  |  | the Solomon Islands *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **maintain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | good relations |  |  |  | with Media's neighbours | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent relation=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | gerund |  | links |  |  |  | to Asian countries; to the north | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset link=Product |

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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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