United Kingdom, sentence 107
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.
Nonetheless, Britain was described as "a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests and sitting at the heart of a global production system."
Who acts: pursuit · What happens: describe, sit, pursue, interest · To what, where: Britain, pursuit, heart, interests
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 (pursuit), 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 | Nonetheless | nonetheless | ADV | _ | 5 described | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nonetheless | punct |
| 3 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 described | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 described | aux:pass |
| 5 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 country | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 wealthy | advmod |
| 10 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 country | amod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 described | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 formidable | punct |
| 13 | formidable | formidable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 country | amod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 arms | case |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 formidable | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ruthless | punct |
| 17 | ruthless | ruthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 formidable | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pursuit | case |
| 19 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 described | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 interests | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 interests | nmod:poss |
| 22 | interests | interest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pursuit | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sitting | cc |
| 24 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 described | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 heart | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 heart | det |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sitting | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 system | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 system | det |
| 30 | global | global | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 system | amod |
| 31 | production | production | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 system | compound |
| 32 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 heart | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 sitting | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | past · passive | Britain | pursuit of pursuit's interests | as a wealthy country; nonetheless property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as country=Attribute | |||
| 2 | sit in a quote | gerund | the heart of a global production system | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at heart=Location | |||||
| 3 | pursue in a quote | pursuit's interests | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | interest in a quote | pursuit | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=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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