Canada, sentence 392
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 Government of Canada has played a role in the development of art, through the department of Canadian Heritage by giving grants to art galleries, as well as by establishing and funding art schools and colleges across the country, and through the Canada Council for the Arts.
What happens: play, give, establish, fund, develop · To what, where: Government, development, grants, art schools, country, art
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: 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 Government | det |
| 2 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Canada | case |
| 4 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Government | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 played | aux |
| 6 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 role | det |
| 8 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 development | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 development | det |
| 11 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 art | case |
| 13 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 development | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 department | punct |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 department | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 department | det |
| 17 | department | department | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Heritage | case |
| 19 | Canadian | Canadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Heritage | amod |
| 20 | Heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 department | nmod |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 giving | mark |
| 22 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 played | advcl |
| 23 | grants | grant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 giving | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 galleries | mark |
| 25 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 galleries | compound |
| 26 | galleries | gallery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 giving | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 establishing | punct |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 32 establishing | cc |
| 29 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 as | fixed |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 as | fixed |
| 31 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 32 establishing | mark |
| 32 | establishing | establish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 giving | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 funding | cc |
| 34 | funding | fund | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 establishing | conj |
| 35 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 schools | compound |
| 36 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 funding | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 colleges | cc |
| 38 | colleges | college | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 schools | conj |
| 39 | across | across | ADP | _ | 41 country | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 country | det |
| 41 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 funding | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Council | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 Council | cc |
| 44 | through | through | ADP | _ | 47 Council | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Council | det |
| 46 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Council | compound |
| 47 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 played | obl |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 Arts | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Arts | det |
| 50 | Arts | Art | PROPN | Number=Plur | 47 Council | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · perfect · passive | the Government of Canada | the development of art | through the Canada Council for the Arts; a role obj; the department of Canadian Heritage parataxis | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary role=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | grants | art galleries advcl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | establish | gerund | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 4 | fund | gerund | art schools and colleges | the country | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | develop | art | nom development «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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