United Kingdom, sentence 145
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.
British troops fought in the war in Afghanistan, but controversy surrounded Britain's military deployment in Iraq, which saw the largest protest in British history in opposition to the government led by Tony Blair.
Who acts: British troops, military deployment, Britain · What happens: fight, surround, see, lead, deploy · To what, where: war, controversy, largest protest, British history, government, Iraq
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 (British troops, military deployment, Britain), 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 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 troops | amod |
| 2 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 fought | nsubj |
| 3 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 war | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 war | det |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fought | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Afghanistan | case |
| 8 | Afghanistan | Afghanistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 surrounded | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 surrounded | cc |
| 11 | controversy | controversy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fought | parataxis |
| 13 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 deployment | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Britain | case |
| 15 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 deployment | amod |
| 16 | deployment | deployment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Iraq | case |
| 18 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 deployment | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 deployment | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 protest | det |
| 23 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 protest | amod |
| 24 | protest | protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 history | case |
| 26 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 history | amod |
| 27 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 protest | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 opposition | case |
| 29 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 history | nmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 government | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 government | det |
| 32 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obl |
| 33 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 government | acl |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 Tony | case |
| 35 | Tony | Tony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 led | obl:agent |
| 36 | Blair | Blair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Tony | flat |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | British troops | the war | in Afghanistan | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | surround | participle · passive | Britain's military deployment in Iraq | controversy | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Britain's military deployment in Iraq | the largest protest | British history in opposition | to the government | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer protest=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | lead | participle | the government not said here | Tony obl:agent | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 5 | deploy | Britain | Iraq | nom deployment «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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