Canada, sentence 90
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.
Between 1871 and 1896, almost one quarter of the Canadian population emigrated south to the US.
Who acts: one quarter · What happens: emigrate · To what, where: US
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 (one quarter), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 2 1871 | case |
| 2 | 1871 | 1871 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 emigrated | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 1896 | cc |
| 4 | 1896 | 1896 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1871 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 quarter | punct |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 quarter | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 quarter | nummod |
| 8 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 emigrated | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 population | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 population | det |
| 11 | Canadian | Canadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 population | amod |
| 12 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quarter | nmod |
| 13 | emigrated | emigrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | south | south | ADV | _ | 13 emigrated | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 US | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 US | det |
| 17 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 emigrated | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 emigrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | emigrate | past | one quarter of the Canadian population | the US | between 1871; south property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to us=Initial_Location |
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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