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title: In 1905, the recently federated Australian government passed the Pap… — Port Moresby · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1905, the recently federated Australian government passed the Papua Act which came into effect in 1906. Who acts: federated Australian government, Papua Act. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Moresby» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Moresby, sentence 49

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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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In 1905, the recently federated Australian government passed the Papua Act which came into effect in 1906.

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**Who acts:** federated Australian government, Papua Act · **What happens:** federate, pass, come · **To what, where:** 1905, effect

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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 (federated Australian government, Papua Act), 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:49
# text = In 1905, the recently federated Australian government passed the Papua Act which came into effect in 1906.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1905	1905	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	federated	federate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Papua	Papua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1906	1906	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **federate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pass** | past | the federated Australian government |  |  | 1905 |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Papua Act |  |  | effect |  | in 1906; which *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into effect=Initial\_Location |

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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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