Germany, sentence 331
From Wikipedia, «Germany», 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.
Obesity in Germany has been increasingly cited as a major health issue: a 2014 study showed that 52 percent of the adult German population was overweight or obese.
Who acts: 2014 study, 52 percent · What happens: cite, show, be · To what, where: Obesity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Germany». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (2014 study, 52 percent), 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 | Obesity | obesity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cited | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Germany | case |
| 3 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Obesity | nmod |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cited | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 cited | aux:pass |
| 6 | increasingly | increasingly | ADV | _ | 7 cited | advmod |
| 7 | cited | cite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 issue | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 issue | det |
| 10 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 issue | amod |
| 11 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 issue | compound |
| 12 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cited | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 showed | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 study | det |
| 15 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 study | nummod |
| 16 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 showed | nsubj |
| 17 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cited | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 overweight | mark |
| 19 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 percent | nummod |
| 20 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 overweight | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 population | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 population | det |
| 23 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 population | amod |
| 24 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 population | amod |
| 25 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 percent | nmod |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 overweight | cop |
| 27 | overweight | overweight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 showed | ccomp |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 obese | cc |
| 29 | obese | obese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 overweight | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cite | present · perfect · passive | Obesity in Germany | as a major health issue; increasingly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as issue=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | show | past | a 2014 study | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | 52 percent of the adult German population | overweight property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | 52 percent of the adult German population not said here | tree rules |
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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