United Kingdom, sentence 407
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.
In England and Wales, water and sewerage services are provided by 10 private regional water and sewerage companies and 13 mostly smaller private "water only" companies.
Who acts: 10 private regional water · What happens: provide · To what, where: water services, 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 (10 private regional water), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 England | case |
| 2 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 provided | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Wales | cc |
| 4 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 England | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 England | punct |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 services | compound |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sewerage | cc |
| 8 | sewerage | sewerage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | conj |
| 9 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 provided | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 provided | aux:pass |
| 11 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 13 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 water | nummod |
| 14 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 water | amod |
| 15 | regional | regional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 provided | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 companies | cc |
| 18 | sewerage | sewerage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 companies | compound |
| 19 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 water | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 13 | cc |
| 21 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 water | conj |
| 22 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 23 smaller | advmod |
| 23 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 water | amod |
| 24 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 water | amod |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 private | punct |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 provided | obj |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 companies | advmod |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 only | punct |
| 29 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 provided | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | present · passive | 10 private regional water and sewerage companies | water services | England and Wales | companies obl; smaller private water obj | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Beneficiary water=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.
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