Canada, sentence 172
From Wikipedia, «Canada», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
At the federal level, Canada has been dominated by two relatively centrist parties practising "brokerage politics": the centre-left leaning Liberal Party of Canada and the centre-right leaning Conservative Party of Canada (or its predecessors).
Who acts: two centrist parties, Conservative Party · What happens: dominate, practise, leave, lean, predecessor · To what, where: Canada, federal level, brokerage politics, centre right
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canada». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two centrist parties, Conservative Party), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 level | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 level | det |
| 3 | federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 level | amod |
| 4 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dominated | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 level | punct |
| 6 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dominated | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dominated | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 dominated | aux:pass |
| 9 | dominated | dominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 parties | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 parties | nummod |
| 12 | relatively | relatively | ADV | _ | 11 two | advmod |
| 13 | centrist | centrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 parties | compound |
| 14 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dominated | obl:agent |
| 15 | practising | practise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 parties | acl |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 politics | punct |
| 17 | brokerage | brokerage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 politics | compound |
| 18 | politics | politics | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 practising | obj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 politics | punct |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 Party | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Party | det |
| 22 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 centre | punct |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 Party | amod |
| 25 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 Party | amod |
| 26 | Liberal | Liberal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Party | compound |
| 27 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dominated | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Canada | case |
| 29 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Party | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 predecessors | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 predecessors | det |
| 32 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 right | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 centre | punct |
| 34 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 predecessors | nmod:unmarked |
| 35 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 predecessors | amod |
| 36 | Conservative | Conservative | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Party | compound |
| 37 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 predecessors | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Canada | case |
| 39 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Party | nmod |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 predecessors | punct |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 predecessors | cc |
| 42 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 predecessors | nmod:poss |
| 43 | predecessors | predecessor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Party | conj |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 predecessors | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dominated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dominate | present · perfect · passive | two centrist parties | Canada | the federal level | the left leaning Liberal Party of Canada and level's leaning predecessors obl | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||
| 2 | practise | gerund | two centrist parties not said here | brokerage politics | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | centre compound | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lean | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | lean | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | predecessor | Conservative Party of Canada | centre right | level nmod:poss | tree rules |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Canada», 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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