United Kingdom, sentence 245
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.
Unlike Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, England does not have a separate devolved government or national parliament, rather a process of devolution of powers from the central government to local authorities has taken place, first in 1998.
Who acts: England · What happens: not have, devolve, take, process · To what, where: separate devolved government, 1998, process, devolution, powers
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 (England), 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 | Unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 2 Scotland | case |
| 2 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ireland | punct |
| 4 | Northern | Northern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ireland | flat |
| 5 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Scotland | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Wales | cc |
| 7 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ireland | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Scotland | punct |
| 9 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 have | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 have | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 government | det |
| 14 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 government | amod |
| 15 | devolved | devolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 government | amod |
| 16 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 parliament | cc |
| 18 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 parliament | amod |
| 19 | parliament | parliament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 government | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 process | punct |
| 21 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 23 process | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 process | det |
| 23 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 devolution | case |
| 25 | devolution | devolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 process | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 powers | case |
| 27 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 devolution | nmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 government | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 government | det |
| 30 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 government | amod |
| 31 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 powers | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 authorities | case |
| 33 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 authorities | amod |
| 34 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 process | nmod |
| 35 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 taken | aux |
| 36 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 have | parataxis |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 taken | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 1998 | punct |
| 39 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 41 1998 | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 1998 | case |
| 41 | 1998 | 1998 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 have | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · do-support | England | a separate devolved government or national parliament | 1998 | unlike Scotland and Northern Ireland and Wales | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Patient | ||
| 2 | devolve | participle | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | take | present · perfect · passive | a process of devolution of powers from the central government to local authorities | place obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination | ||||
| 4 | process | devolution of powers from the central government | to local authorities | nom process «act transitive»: of=patient to=obl | |||||
| 5 | devolve | powers from the central government | nom devolution «process transitive»: of=patient |
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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