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title: Local in-group relations are a strong component of the wantok system… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: Local in-group relations are a strong component of the wantok system, and so treatment by individuals of those in their communities will often differ from the way they treat those of other communities. Who acts: Local group relations, treatment, relations, individuals. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pap
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 573

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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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Local in-group relations are a strong component of the wantok system, and so treatment by individuals of those in their communities will often differ from the way they treat those of other communities.

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**Who acts:** Local group relations, treatment, relations, individuals · **What happens:** be, differ, treat · **To what, where:** strong component, way

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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 (Local group relations, treatment, relations, individuals), 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:573
# text = Local in-group relations are a strong component of the wantok system, and so treatment by individuals of those in their communities will often differ from the way they treat those of other communities.
1	Local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	component	component	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wantok	wantok	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
17	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	individuals	individual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	often	often	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	treat	treat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Local group relations | a strong component |  |  |  | of the wantok system | tree rules |
| 2 | **differ** | future | treatment by individuals of those in relations's communities |  |  |  |  | from the way; often *property* | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from way=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **treat** | present | relations *= relation* | the way |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
| 4 | **treat** |  | individuals of those in relations's communities |  |  |  |  |  | nom treatment «act transitive»: by=agent |

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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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