Canada, sentence 67
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.
It re-established the French language, Catholic faith, and French civil law there, staving off the growth of an independence movement in contrast to the Thirteen Colonies.
Who acts: Act, independence movement · What happens: re-establish, stave off, grow · To what, where: French language, growth
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 (Act, independence movement), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 re-established | nsubj |
| 2 | re-established | re-establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 language | det |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 language | amod |
| 5 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 re-established | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 faith | punct |
| 7 | Catholic | catholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 faith | amod |
| 8 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 language | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 law | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 law | cc |
| 11 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 law | amod |
| 12 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 law | amod |
| 13 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 re-established | obl |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 law | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 staving | punct |
| 16 | staving | stave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 re-established | advcl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 growth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 growth | det |
| 19 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 staving | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 movement | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 movement | det |
| 22 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 movement | compound |
| 23 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 growth | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 contrast | case |
| 25 | contrast | contrast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 movement | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Colonies | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Colonies | det |
| 28 | Thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 Colonies | nummod |
| 29 | Colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 staving | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 re-established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | re-establish | past | Act | the French language and Catholic faith | French civil law obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stave off | gerund | Act not said here | the growth of a independence movement in contrast | to the Thirteen Colonies | tree rules | |||
| 3 | grow | a independence movement in contrast | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent |
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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