Canada, sentence 198
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 Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court, final arbiter, and has been led since 2017 by Richard Wagner, the Chief Justice of Canada.
Who acts: Supreme Court, Richard · What happens: be, lead · To what, where: highest court
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 (Supreme Court, Richard), 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 | 3 Court | det |
| 2 | Supreme | Supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Court | amod |
| 3 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 court | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Canada | case |
| 5 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Court | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 court | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 court | det |
| 8 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 court | amod |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arbiter | punct |
| 11 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 arbiter | amod |
| 12 | arbiter | arbiter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 court | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 led | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 led | cc |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 led | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 led | aux:pass |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 court | acl |
| 18 | since | since | ADP | _ | 19 2017 | case |
| 19 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 led | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Richard | case |
| 21 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 22 | Wagner | Wagner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Richard | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Justice | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Justice | det |
| 25 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Justice | compound |
| 26 | Justice | Justice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Richard | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Canada | case |
| 28 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Justice | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 court | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Supreme Court of Canada | the highest court and final arbiter | final arbiter conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead | present · perfect · passive | Richard and the Chief Justice of Canada | the highest court and final arbiter not said here | since 2017 | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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