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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 65

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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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Sweet potato largely supplanted the previous staple, taro, and led to significant population growth in the highlands.

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**What happens:** supplant, lead · **To what, where:** 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: 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:65
# text = Sweet potato largely supplanted the previous staple, taro, and led to significant population growth in the highlands.
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	supplanted	supplant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	staple	staple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	taro	taro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	highlands	highland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supplant** | participle · passive |  | Sweet potato |  |  |  | the previous staple and taro *obj*; largely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to significant population growth in the highlands | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to growth=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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