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title: During World War II, some Papuan men enlisted in the Papua Infantry… — Port Moresby · tree and pragmatics
description: During World War II, some Papuan men enlisted in the Papua Infantry Battalion and others as carriers over trails and rough terrains (porters) as supply support to Allied and Japanese armies during long jungle marches. Who acts: Papuan men, long jungle. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Moresby» with i
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# Port Moresby, sentence 59

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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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During World War II, some Papuan men enlisted in the Papua Infantry Battalion and others as carriers over trails and rough terrains (porters) as supply support to Allied and Japanese armies during long jungle marches.

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**Who acts:** Papuan men, long jungle · **What happens:** enlist, ally, march · **To what, where:** Papua Infantry Battalion

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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 (Papuan men, long jungle), 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:59
# text = During World War II, some Papuan men enlisted in the Papua Infantry Battalion and others as carriers over trails and rough terrains (porters) as supply support to Allied and Japanese armies during long jungle marches.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	Papuan	papuan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	enlisted	enlist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Papua	Papua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Infantry	Infantry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Battalion	Battalion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	carriers	carrier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	trails	trail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	terrains	terrain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	porters	porter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	supply	supply	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
30	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	Allied	ally	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
35	during	during	ADP	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	marches	march	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enlist** | past | some Papuan men |  |  | the Papua Infantry Battalion and others | during World War | as carriers; over trails and rough terrains; as supply support | vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as carrier=Attribute |
| 2 | **ally** | participle | some Papuan men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Japanese armies *conj* | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **march** | present | long jungle |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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