Canada, sentence 233
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.
Canada has long been reluctant to participate in military interventions that are not sanctioned by the United Nations, such as the Vietnam War, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2026 Iran war.
Who acts: Canada, United Nations · What happens: be, participate, not sanction, invade · To what, where: military interventions, Iraq
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 (Canada, United Nations), 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 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reluctant | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reluctant | aux |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 reluctant | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 reluctant | cop |
| 5 | reluctant | reluctant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 participate | mark |
| 7 | participate | participate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reluctant | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 interventions | case |
| 9 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 interventions | amod |
| 10 | interventions | intervention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 participate | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sanctioned | obj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sanctioned | aux:pass |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 sanctioned | advmod |
| 14 | sanctioned | sanction | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 interventions | acl:relcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Nations | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Nations | det |
| 17 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 18 Nations | compound |
| 18 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 sanctioned | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 War | punct |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 24 War | case |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 such | fixed |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 War | det |
| 23 | Vietnam | Vietnam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 War | compound |
| 24 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 interventions | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 invasion | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 invasion | det |
| 27 | 2003 | 2003 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 invasion | compound |
| 28 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 War | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Iraq | case |
| 30 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 invasion | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 war | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 war | det |
| 33 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 war | compound |
| 34 | Iran | Iran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 war | compound |
| 35 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 War | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reluctant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | Canada | long, reluctant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | participate | to-infinitive | Canada not said here | in military interventions such the Vietnam War and the 2026 Iran war | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in intervention=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not sanction | present · passive | the United Nations | military interventions such the Vietnam War and the 2026 Iran war | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | invade | Iraq | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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