Canada, sentence 403
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 Maple Leaf Forever", written in 1866, was popular and served as an unofficial national anthem of English Canada. "
Who acts: Maple Leaf · What happens: write, be, serve · To what, where: Maple Leaf, 1866
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 (Maple Leaf), 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 Leaf | det |
| 2 | Maple | Maple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Leaf | compound |
| 3 | Leaf | Leaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 popular | nsubj |
| 4 | Forever | forever | ADV | _ | 3 Leaf | advmod |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Leaf | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 written | punct |
| 7 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Leaf | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1866 | case |
| 9 | 1866 | 1866 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 written | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Leaf | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 popular | cop |
| 12 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 served | cc |
| 14 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 popular | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 anthem | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 anthem | det |
| 17 | unofficial | unofficial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 anthem | amod |
| 18 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 anthem | amod |
| 19 | anthem | anthem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 served | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Canada | case |
| 21 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Canada | compound |
| 22 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 anthem | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 popular | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 popular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write in a quote | participle | the Maple Leaf not said here | 1866 | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1866=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the Maple Leaf | popular property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | serve in a quote | participle | the Maple Leaf not said here | as a unofficial national anthem of English Canada | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as anthem=Attribute |
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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