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title: The country remains greatly fragmented, with strong local identities… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: The country remains greatly fragmented, with strong local identities and allegiances that often contrast with a weak national identity. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 584

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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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The country remains greatly fragmented, with strong local identities and allegiances that often contrast with a weak national identity.

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**What happens:** fragment, contrast · **To what, where:** country, strong local identities

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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: 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:584
# text = The country remains greatly fragmented, with strong local identities and allegiances that often contrast with a weak national identity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fragmented	fragment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	identities	identity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	allegiances	allegiance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	contrast	contrast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fragment** | present · passive |  | the country |  |  |  | strong local identities and allegiances *conj*; greatly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **contrast** | present |  | strong local identities and allegiances |  |  |  | with a weak national identity; often *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient with identity=Co-Patient |

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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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