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title: In German New Guinea Tok Pisin began to spread through local adoptio… — Papua New Guinea · tree and pragmatics
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# Papua New Guinea, sentence 87

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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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In German New Guinea Tok Pisin began to spread through local adoption, and was reluctantly used by German authorities.

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**Who acts:** Tok, German authorities · **What happens:** begin, spread, use · **To what, where:** German, local adoption

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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 (Tok, German authorities), 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:87
# text = In German New Guinea Tok Pisin began to spread through local adoption, and was reluctantly used by German authorities.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	Tok	Tok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Pisin	Pisin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	reluctantly	reluctantly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Tok |  |  | German and New Guinea |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **spread** | to-infinitive | Tok *not said here* |  |  | local adoption |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through adoption=Location |
| 3 | **use** | past · passive | German authorities |  |  |  |  | reluctantly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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