United Kingdom, sentence 1
From Wikipedia, «United Kingdom», 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 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
Who acts: United Kingdom · What happens: know, be · To what, where: country, northwestern Europe
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Kingdom». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (United Kingdom), 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 Kingdom | det |
| 2 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 3 Kingdom | flat |
| 3 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 country | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Britain | case |
| 5 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Britain | flat |
| 6 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Kingdom | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Ireland | cc |
| 8 | Northern | Northern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ireland | flat |
| 9 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Kingdom | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 known | punct |
| 11 | commonly | commonly | ADV | _ | 12 known | advmod |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Kingdom | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Kingdom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Kingdom | det |
| 15 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 16 Kingdom | flat |
| 16 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 known | obl |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 UK | punct |
| 18 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Kingdom | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 UK | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 Britain | cc |
| 21 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Kingdom | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kingdom | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 country | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 country | det |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Europe | case |
| 27 | northwestern | northwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Europe | amod |
| 28 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 country | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 coast | punct |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 coast | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 coast | det |
| 32 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 country | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 mainland | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 mainland | det |
| 35 | continental | continental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 mainland | amod |
| 36 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 coast | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | as the United Kingdom or Britain; commonly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as kingdom=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | a country and the coast of the continental mainland | northwestern Europe | the coast of the continental mainland conj | 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «United Kingdom», 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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