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title: The country is part of the Malesia biogeographical area, with its pl… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: The country is part of the Malesia biogeographical area, with its plant species more similar to those of East Asia than Australasia, although there are exceptions, especially at higher altitudes. Who acts: country, exceptions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 406

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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 country is part of the Malesia biogeographical area, with its plant species more similar to those of East Asia than Australasia, although there are exceptions, especially at higher altitudes.

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**Who acts:** country, exceptions · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** part

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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 (country, exceptions), 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:406
# text = The country is part of the Malesia biogeographical area, with its plant species more similar to those of East Asia than Australasia, although there are exceptions, especially at higher altitudes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Malesia	Malesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	biogeographical	biogeographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Australasia	Australasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	exceptions	exception	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	altitudes	altitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 country | part |  |  |  | of the Malesia biogeographical area; with country's plant species | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | exceptions and higher altitudes |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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