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title: Freehold title (also known as fee simple) can only be held by Papua… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: Freehold title (also known as fee simple) can only be held by Papua New Guinean citizens. Who acts: Papua Guinean citizens. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 485

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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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Freehold title (also known as fee simple) can only be held by Papua New Guinean citizens.

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**Who acts:** Papua Guinean citizens · **What happens:** know, hold · **To what, where:** Freehold title

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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 (Papua Guinean citizens), 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:485
# text = Freehold title (also known as fee simple) can only be held by Papua New Guinean citizens.
1	Freehold	freehold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	Papua	Papua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	Guinean	guinean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | Freehold title *not said here* |  |  |  | as fee | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as fee=Attribute |
| 2 | **hold** | can · passive | Papua Guinean citizens | Freehold title |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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