Canada, sentence 183

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.

The leader of the party with the second-most seats usually becomes the leader of the Official Opposition and is part of an adversarial parliamentary system intended to keep the government in check.

Who acts: leader · What happens: become, be, intend, keep · To what, where: part, government, check

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 (leader), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leader	det
2	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 becomes	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 party	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 party	det
5	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leader	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	11 seats	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 seats	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 seats	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 second	punct
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 seats	amod
11	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 party	nmod
12	usually	usually	ADV	_	13 becomes	advmod
13	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 leader	det
15	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 intended	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 Opposition	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Opposition	det
18	Official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Opposition	amod
19	Opposition	opposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leader	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 part	cc
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 part	cop
22	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Opposition	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 system	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 system	det
25	adversarial	adversarial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 system	amod
26	parliamentary	parliamentary	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 system	compound
27	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 part	nmod
28	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 becomes	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 keep	mark
30	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 intended	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 government	det
32	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keep	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 check	case
34	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keep	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 becomes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	present	the leader of the party with the second most seats			usually property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the leader of the Official Opposition and part not said here	part		of a adversarial parliamentary system	tree rules
3	intend	past	the leader of the Official Opposition and part				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the leader of the Official Opposition and part not said here	the government	check		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent government=Theme in check=Location

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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Canada, sentence 183