United Kingdom, sentence 133
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.
When the EC became the European Union (EU) in 1993, the UK was one of the 12 founding member states.
Who acts: EC, UK · What happens: become, be, found · To what, where: 1993, one
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 (EC, UK), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 became | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 EC | det |
| 3 | EC | EC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Union | det |
| 6 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Union | compound |
| 7 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 became | xcomp |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 EU | punct |
| 9 | EU | EU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Union | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 EU | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1993 | case |
| 12 | 1993 | 1993 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 became | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 UK | det |
| 15 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 one | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | cop |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 became | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 states | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 states | det |
| 20 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 states | nummod |
| 21 | founding | found | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 states | amod |
| 22 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 states | compound |
| 23 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the EC | in 1993 result; the European Union xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1993=Result | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the UK | one | of the 12 founding member states | tree rules | |||
| 3 | found | gerund | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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