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title: The city hosted the 2017 FIBA Melanesia Basketball Cup, where the Pa… — Port Moresby · tree and pragmatics
description: The city hosted the 2017 FIBA Melanesia Basketball Cup, where the Papua New Guinea national basketball team won the gold medal. Who acts: city, Papua New Guinea, national basketball team. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Moresby» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Moresby, sentence 130

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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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The city hosted the 2017 FIBA Melanesia Basketball Cup, where the Papua New Guinea national basketball team won the gold medal.

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**Who acts:** city, Papua New Guinea, national basketball team · **What happens:** host, team, win · **To what, where:** 2017 FIBA Basketball Cup, gold medal

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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 (city, Papua New Guinea, national basketball team), 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:130
# text = The city hosted the 2017 FIBA Melanesia Basketball Cup, where the Papua New Guinea national basketball team won the gold medal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hosted	host	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	2017	2017	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	amod	_	_
6	FIBA	FIBA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	Melanesia	Melanesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Basketball	Basketball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
13	Papua	Papua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	basketball	basketball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	medal	medal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **host** | past | the city |  | the 2017 FIBA Basketball Cup |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **team** |  | Papua New Guinea |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | past | the national basketball team | the gold medal |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medal=Eventuality |

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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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