Canada, sentence 298
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 2021 census indicated that 8.3 million people, or almost one-quarter (23.0 percent) of the population, reported themselves as being or having been a landed immigrant or permanent resident in Canada—above the 1921 census previous record of 22.3 percent.
Who acts: 2021 census · What happens: indicate, report, land, be, record · To what, where: million people, peoples, landed immigrant, 22.3 percent
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 (2021 census), 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 census | det |
| 2 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 census | nummod |
| 3 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 indicated | nsubj |
| 4 | indicated | indicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | ADV | _ | 7 million | advmod |
| 6 | 8.3 | 8.3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 million | compound |
| 7 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 people | nummod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 indicated | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quarter | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 quarter | cc |
| 11 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 14 quarter | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 quarter | nummod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 14 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 indicated | obl |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 percent | punct |
| 16 | 23.0 | 23.0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 percent | nummod |
| 17 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quarter | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 percent | punct |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 population | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 population | det |
| 21 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quarter | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reported | punct |
| 23 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 indicated | conj |
| 24 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 reported | obj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 immigrant | mark |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 immigrant | cop |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 immigrant | cc |
| 28 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 immigrant | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 immigrant | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 immigrant | det |
| 31 | landed | land | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 immigrant | amod |
| 32 | immigrant | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reported | ccomp |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 resident | cc |
| 34 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 resident | amod |
| 35 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 immigrant | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Canada | case |
| 37 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 resident | nmod |
| 38 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 record | punct |
| 39 | above | above | ADP | _ | 44 record | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 record | det |
| 41 | 1921 | 1921 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 census | nummod |
| 42 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 record | compound |
| 43 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 record | amod |
| 44 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 resident | appos |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 percent | case |
| 46 | 22.3 | 22.3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 47 percent | nummod |
| 47 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 record | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 indicated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indicate | past | the 2021 census | million people | one quarter of the population obl | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot people=Topic | |||
| 2 | report | past | the 2021 census not said here | peoples = people | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 3 | land | participle | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | gerund · perfect | the 2021 census not said here | a landed immigrant or permanent resident in Canada | permanent resident in Canada conj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | record | 22.3 percent | nom record «communication 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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