United Kingdom, sentence 459
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.
As of April 2020 there are around 151,000 users of British Sign Language (BSL), a sign language used by deaf people, in the UK.
Who acts: 151,000 users · What happens: be around, use · To what, where: sign language, UK
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 (151,000 users), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 April | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 are | obl |
| 4 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 April | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 are | expl |
| 6 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | around | around | ADV | _ | 8 151,000 | advmod |
| 8 | 151,000 | 151,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 users | nummod |
| 9 | users | user | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 are | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Language | case |
| 11 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Language | amod |
| 12 | Sign | Sign | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Language | compound |
| 13 | Language | Language | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 users | nmod |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 BSL | punct |
| 15 | BSL | BSL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Language | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 BSL | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 language | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 language | det |
| 19 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 language | compound |
| 20 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Language | appos |
| 21 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 language | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 23 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 people | amod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 used | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 UK | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 UK | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 UK | det |
| 28 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 used | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be around | present | 151,000 users of British Sign Language | there | april | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | participle | a sign language not said here | the UK | by deaf people | 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.
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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