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title: As Dutch authorities become more interested in New Guinea, they conf… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: As Dutch authorities become more interested in New Guinea, they confirmed and extended the sultanate's claims over western New Guinea. Who acts: Dutch authorities, authorities, sultanate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 50

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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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As Dutch authorities become more interested in New Guinea, they confirmed and extended the sultanate's claims over western New Guinea.

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**Who acts:** Dutch authorities, authorities, sultanate · **What happens:** become, confirm, extend, claim · **To what, where:** claims, western New Guinea

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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 (Dutch authorities, authorities, sultanate), 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:50
# text = As Dutch authorities become more interested in New Guinea, they confirmed and extended the sultanate's claims over western New Guinea.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	extended	extend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sultanate	sultanate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | Dutch authorities |  |  |  |  | interested *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **confirm** | past | authorities *= authority* |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **extend** | past | authorities *= authority* *not said here* | the sultanate's claims |  | western New Guinea |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent claim=Theme |
| 4 | **claim** |  | the sultanate |  |  | western New Guinea |  |  | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent over=place |

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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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