Canada, sentence 301

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's official bilingualism policies give citizens the right to receive federal government services in either English or French with official-language minorities guaranteed their own schools in all provinces and territories.

Who acts: official bilingualism policies, right · What happens: give, receive, guarantee · To what, where: citizens, federal government services, English, own schools, provinces

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 (official bilingualism policies, right), 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 policies	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Canada	case
3	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 policies	amod
4	bilingualism	bilingualism	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 policies	compound
5	policies	policy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 right	det
9	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 guaranteed	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 receive	mark
11	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 right	acl
12	federal	federal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 services	amod
13	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 services	compound
14	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 receive	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 English	case
16	either	either	CCONJ	_	17 English	cc:preconj
17	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 services	nmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 French	cc
19	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 English	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 minorities	case
21	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 language	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 official	punct
23	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 minorities	compound
24	minorities	minority	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 French	obl
25	guaranteed	guarantee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	parataxis
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 schools	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 schools	amod
28	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 guaranteed	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 provinces	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 provinces	det
31	provinces	province	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 guaranteed	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 territories	cc
33	territories	territory	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 provinces	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	give	present	Canada's official bilingualism policies	citizens		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent citizen=Theme
2	receive	to-infinitive	the right not said here	federal government services	English	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent service=Theme in english=Location
3	guarantee	past	the right	rights's own schools	all provinces and territories	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition school=Theme

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 301