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title: Port Moresby refers to both the urbanised area of the National Capit… — Port Moresby · tree and pragmatics
description: Port Moresby refers to both the urbanised area of the National Capital District and more specifically to the main business area, known locally as "Town". Who acts: Port. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Moresby» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Port Moresby, sentence 94

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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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Port Moresby refers to both the urbanised area of the National Capital District and more specifically to the main business area, known locally as "Town".

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**Who acts:** Port · **What happens:** refer, urbanis, know · **To what, where:** main business area

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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 (Port), 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:94
# text = Port Moresby refers to both the urbanised area of the National Capital District and more specifically to the main business area, known locally as "Town".
1	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Moresby	Moresby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc:preconj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	urbanised	urbanis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	District	District	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	specifically	specifically	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	locally	locally	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | Port |  |  |  |  | to the urbanised area of the National Capital District and the main business area | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to area=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **urbanis** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | the main business area *not said here* |  |  |  | as Town; locally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as town=Attribute |

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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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