---
title: As of 2016, the total fertility rate was 4.4. — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: As of 2016, the total fertility rate was 4.4. Who acts: total fertility rate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Papua_New_Guinea/515/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Papua New Guinea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Papua_New_Guinea/) / 515

# Papua New Guinea, sentence 515

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
As of 2016, the total fertility rate was 4.4.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** total fertility rate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 4.4

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (total fertility rate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:515
# text = As of 2016, the total fertility rate was 4.4.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	fertility	fertility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	4.4	4.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the total fertility rate | 4.4 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 514](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Papua_New_Guinea/514/)
- next →: [sentence 516](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Papua_New_Guinea/516/)
- ↑ back to [Papua New Guinea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Papua_New_Guinea/)