United Kingdom, sentence 251
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 county authority is a similar type of local-government institution introduced in England outside Greater London by the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023, but may only be formed by upper-tier authorities: county councils and unitary authorities.
Who acts: combined county authority, government institution, tier authorities · What happens: combine, be, introduce, form · To what, where: similar 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 county authority, government institution, tier authorities), 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 | 4 authority | det |
| 2 | combined | combine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 authority | amod |
| 3 | county | county | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 authority | compound |
| 4 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 type | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 type | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 type | det |
| 7 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 type | amod |
| 8 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 institution | case |
| 10 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 government | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 local | punct |
| 12 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 institution | compound |
| 13 | institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 type | nmod |
| 14 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 institution | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 England | case |
| 16 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 introduced | obl |
| 17 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 18 Greater | advmod |
| 18 | Greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 London | amod |
| 19 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 introduced | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 up | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 up | det |
| 22 | Levelling | levelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 up | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 up | punct |
| 24 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 introduced | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Act | cc |
| 26 | Regeneration | Regeneration | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Act | compound |
| 27 | Act | Act | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 up | conj |
| 28 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 Act | flat |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 formed | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 formed | cc |
| 31 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 formed | aux |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 formed | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 formed | aux:pass |
| 34 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 type | acl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 authorities | case |
| 36 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 tier | amod |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 upper | punct |
| 38 | tier | tier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 authorities | compound |
| 39 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 formed | obl |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 42 councils | punct |
| 41 | county | county | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 councils | amod |
| 42 | councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 authorities | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 authorities | cc |
| 44 | unitary | unitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 authorities | amod |
| 45 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 councils | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 county authority | a similar type | of government institution | tree rules | |||
| 3 | introduce | participle | government institution not said here | Greater London | England | by the Levelling up and Regeneration Act | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||
| 4 | form | may · passive | tier authorities and county councils and unitary authorities | a similar type not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «United Kingdom», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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