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title: The German New Guinea Company had initially tried to develop plantat… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
description: The German New Guinea Company had initially tried to develop plantations, but when this was not successful began to engage in barter trade. Who acts: this. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Papua New Guinea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 76

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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 German New Guinea Company had initially tried to develop plantations, but when this was not successful began to engage in barter trade.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** try, develop, not be, begin, engage · **To what, where:** Guinea Company, plantations, barter trade

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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 (this), 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:76
# text = The German New Guinea Company had initially tried to develop plantations, but when this was not successful began to engage in barter trade.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Company	Company	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	develop	develop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	barter	barter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Guinea Company |  |  |  | initially *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **develop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | plantations |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plantation=Product |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | successful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **engage** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in barter trade *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in trade=Goal |

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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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