United Kingdom, sentence 225
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 upper-tier subdivisions of England are the nine regions, used primarily for statistical purposes.
Who acts: tier subdivisions · What happens: be, use · To what, where: nine regions
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 (tier subdivisions), 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 | 5 subdivisions | det |
| 2 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tier | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 upper | punct |
| 4 | tier | tier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 subdivisions | compound |
| 5 | subdivisions | subdivision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 regions | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 England | case |
| 7 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 subdivisions | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 regions | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 regions | det |
| 10 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 regions | nummod |
| 11 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 used | punct |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 regions | acl |
| 14 | primarily | primarily | ADV | _ | 13 used | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 purposes | case |
| 16 | statistical | statistical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 purposes | amod |
| 17 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 used | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 regions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the tier subdivisions of England | the nine regions | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | the nine regions not said here | for statistical purposes; primarily property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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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