--- title: A constitutional amendment in March 2025 recognised Papua New Guinea… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics description: A constitutional amendment in March 2025 recognised Papua New Guinea as a Christian country, with specific mention of "God, the Father; Jesus Christ, the Son; and Holy Spirit", and the Bible as a national symbol. Who acts: constitutional amendment. 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A constitutional amendment in March 2025 recognised Papua New Guinea as a Christian country, with specific mention of "God, the Father; Jesus Christ, the Son; and Holy Spirit", and the Bible as a national symbol. **Who acts:** constitutional amendment · **What happens:** recognise, mention · **To what, where:** Papua New Guinea, God 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 (constitutional amendment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:568 # text = A constitutional amendment in March 2025 recognised Papua New Guinea as a Christian country, with specific mention of "God, the Father; Jesus Christ, the Son; and Holy Spirit", and the Bible as a national symbol. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 constitutional constitutional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 amendment amendment NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod:unmarked _ _ 7 recognised recognise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Papua Papua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Guinea Guinea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 specific specific ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 mention mention NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 27 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Son Son PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 Holy Holy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 34 Spirit Spirit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 symbol symbol NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recognise** | past | a constitutional amendment in March 2025 | Papua New Guinea | | | | as a Christian country; Jesus and the Son *obl*; specific mention of God and the Father *conj*; Holy Spirit and the Bible as a national symbol *parataxis* | tree rules | | 2 | **mention** | | | God and the Father | | | | | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 567](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Papua_New_Guinea/567/) - next →: [sentence 569](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Papua_New_Guinea/569/) - ↑ back to [Papua New Guinea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Papua_New_Guinea/)