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title: In 1980, the census return registered a population of 120,000; by 19… — Port Moresby · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1980, the census return registered a population of 120,000; by 1990, this had increased to 195,000. Who acts: census return. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Moresby» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Moresby, sentence 78

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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 1980, the census return registered a population of 120,000; by 1990, this had increased to 195,000.

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**Who acts:** census return · **What happens:** register, increase · **To what, where:** population, 1980, this

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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 (census return), 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:78
# text = In 1980, the census return registered a population of 120,000; by 1990, this had increased to 195,000.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	registered	register	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	120,000	120000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	195,000	195,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **register** | past | the census return | a population of 120,000 |  | 1980 |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Theme |
| 2 | **increase** | past · perfect · passive |  | this |  |  |  | by 1990; to 195,000 *result* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: subject=Patient by 1990=Extent to 195,000=Result |

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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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