United Kingdom, sentence 249
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.
A combined authority is a type of local government institution introduced in England outside Greater London by the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009.
Who acts: combined authority, local government institution · What happens: combine, be, introduce · To what, where: type, Greater London, England
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 (combined authority, local government institution), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 authority | det |
| 2 | combined | combine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 authority | amod |
| 3 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 type | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 type | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 type | det |
| 6 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 institution | case |
| 8 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 institution | amod |
| 9 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 institution | compound |
| 10 | institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 type | nmod |
| 11 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 institution | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 England | case |
| 13 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 introduced | obl |
| 14 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 15 Greater | advmod |
| 15 | Greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 London | amod |
| 16 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 introduced | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Democracy | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Democracy | det |
| 19 | Local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Democracy | amod |
| 20 | Democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 introduced | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Development | punct |
| 22 | Economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Development | amod |
| 23 | Development | Development | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Democracy | appos |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Act | cc |
| 25 | Construction | Construction | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Act | compound |
| 26 | Act | Act | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Development | conj |
| 27 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 Act | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 type | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | combine | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a combined authority | a type | of local government institution | tree rules | |||
| 3 | introduce | participle | local government institution not said here | Greater London | England | by the Local Democracy | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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