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title: Due to its population and outsized influence compared to other citie… — Port Moresby · tree and pragmatics
description: Due to its population and outsized influence compared to other cities in Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby may be regarded as a primate city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Moresby» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Moresby, sentence 6

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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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Due to its population and outsized influence compared to other cities in Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby may be regarded as a primate city.

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**What happens:** compare, regard · **To what, where:** outsized influence

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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: 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:6
# text = Due to its population and outsized influence compared to other cities in Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby may be regarded as a primate city.
1	Due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	outsized	outsized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
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	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	Moresby	Moresby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	primate	primate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | participle |  | outsized influence *not said here* |  |  |  | to other cities in Papua New Guinea and Port | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **regard** | may · passive |  |  |  |  |  | due ˈmɔərzbi's population and outsized influence; as a primate city | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: as city=Value |

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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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