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title: Portuguese traders introduced the South American sweet potato to the… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: Portuguese traders introduced the South American sweet potato to the Moluccas. Who acts: Portuguese traders. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 60

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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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Portuguese traders introduced the South American sweet potato to the Moluccas.

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**Who acts:** Portuguese traders · **What happens:** introduce · **To what, where:** South American sweet potato

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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 (Portuguese traders), 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:60
# text = Portuguese traders introduced the South American sweet potato to the Moluccas.
1	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Moluccas	molucca	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | past | Portuguese traders | the South American sweet potato |  |  |  | to the Moluccas | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent potato=Patient to molucca=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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