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title: While New Britain is mostly not volcanic, volcanic activity along it… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: While New Britain is mostly not volcanic, volcanic activity along its north and especially in the Gazelle Peninsula around Rabaul has created fertile soil. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 370

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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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While New Britain is mostly not volcanic, volcanic activity along its north and especially in the Gazelle Peninsula around Rabaul has created fertile soil.

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**What happens:** not be, create · **To what, where:** volcanic activity

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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:370
# text = While New Britain is mostly not volcanic, volcanic activity along its north and especially in the Gazelle Peninsula around Rabaul has created fertile soil.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	along	along	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Gazelle	Gazelle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Rabaul	Rabaul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
24	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | New Britain *obl*; mostly, volcanic *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **create** | present · perfect · passive |  | volcanic activity along One's north and the Gazelle Peninsula around Rabaul |  |  |  | fertile soil *obj* | 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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