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title: In September 1975, Papua New Guinea became an independent country wi… — Port Moresby · tree and pragmatics
description: In September 1975, Papua New Guinea became an independent country with Port Moresby as its capital city. Who acts: Papua. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Moresby» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Moresby, sentence 67

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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 September 1975, Papua New Guinea became an independent country with Port Moresby as its capital city.

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**Who acts:** Papua · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** independent country

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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 (Papua), 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:67
# text = In September 1975, Papua New Guinea became an independent country with Port Moresby as its capital city.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	1975	1975	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Papua	Papua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Moresby	Moresby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Papua and New Guinea | a independent country with Port |  |  | september | as country's capital city | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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