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title: Captain John Moresby named the harbour in honour of his father Fairf… — Port Moresby · tree and pragmatics
description: Captain John Moresby named the harbour in honour of his father Fairfax Moresby and called the anchorage off Paga Hill "Port Moresby" on his charts. Who acts: John. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Moresby» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Moresby, sentence 17

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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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Captain John Moresby named the harbour in honour of his father Fairfax Moresby and called the anchorage off Paga Hill "Port Moresby" on his charts.

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** name, call, honour, chart · **To what, where:** harbour, honour, anchorage, charts, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (John), 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:17
# text = Captain John Moresby named the harbour in honour of his father Fairfax Moresby and called the anchorage off Paga Hill "Port Moresby" on his charts.
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Moresby	Moresby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	Fairfax	Fairfax	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	Moresby	Moresby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	anchorage	anchorage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Paga	Paga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Moresby	Moresby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	charts	chart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past | John  Captain | the harbour |  | honour of John's father |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harbour=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | past | John  Captain *not said here* | the anchorage |  | John's charts |  | off Paga Hill | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anchorage=Recipient |
| 3 | **honour** |  |  | John's father |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **chart** |  | John |  |  |  |  |  | nom chart «communication transitive»: poss=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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