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title: To the west of this strait is the shallow Arafura Sea, while to its… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: To the west of this strait is the shallow Arafura Sea, while to its east is the much deeper Coral Sea. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 328

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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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To the west of this strait is the shallow Arafura Sea, while to its east is the much deeper Coral Sea.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** shallow Arafura Sea, much Coral Sea

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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:328
# text = To the west of this strait is the shallow Arafura Sea, while to its east is the much deeper Coral Sea.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Arafura	Arafura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
21	Coral	Coral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the shallow Arafura Sea and the much Coral Sea |  |  |  | to the west of this strait | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the much Coral Sea |  |  |  | to country's east; deep *property* | tree rules |

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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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