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title: Continuing foreign demand for PNG's resources led the United States… — Port Moresby · tree and pragmatics
description: Continuing foreign demand for PNG's resources led the United States to set up an oil company that began to export in 2004. Who acts: Continuing, oil company. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Moresby» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Moresby, sentence 112

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From Wikipedia, [«Port Moresby»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Moresby), 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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Continuing foreign demand for PNG's resources led the United States to set up an oil company that began to export in 2004.

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**Who acts:** Continuing, oil company · **What happens:** continue, lead, set up, begin, export · **To what, where:** foreign demand, United States, oil company, 2004

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port Moresby». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Continuing, oil company), 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:Port_Moresby:112
# text = Continuing foreign demand for PNG's resources led the United States to set up an oil company that began to export in 2004.
1	Continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	PNG	PNG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	export	export	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | gerund |  | foreign demand |  |  |  | for PNG's resources | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent demand=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past | Continuing | the United States |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Theme |
| 3 | **set up** | to-infinitive | Continuing *not said here* | a oil company |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient company=Result |
| 4 | **begin** | past | a oil company |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **export** | to-infinitive | a oil company *not said here* |  |  | 2004 |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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, «Port Moresby», 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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