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title: The depression continues into the waters east of the mainland, formi… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: The depression continues into the waters east of the mainland, forming the New Britain Trench. Who acts: depression. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 347

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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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The depression continues into the waters east of the mainland, forming the New Britain Trench.

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**Who acts:** depression · **What happens:** continue, form · **To what, where:** waters east, Britain Trench

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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 (depression), 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:347
# text = The depression continues into the waters east of the mainland, forming the New Britain Trench.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	depression	depression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	continues	continue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	waters	waters	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Trench	Trench	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | present | the depression |  |  | the waters east of the mainland |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into east=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **form** | gerund | the depression *not said here* | the Britain Trench |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trench=Theme |

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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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