United Kingdom, sentence 543
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.
The United Kingdom is famous for "British Empiricism", a branch of the philosophy that states that only knowledge verified by experience is valid, and 'Scottish Philosophy', sometimes referred to as the 'Scottish School of Common Sense'.
Who acts: United Kingdom, philosophy, knowledge · What happens: be, state, verify, refer · To what, where: knowledge, Scottish Philosophy
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 (United Kingdom, philosophy, knowledge), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Kingdom | det |
| 2 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 3 Kingdom | flat |
| 3 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 famous | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 famous | cop |
| 5 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Empiricism | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Empiricism | punct |
| 8 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Empiricism | amod |
| 9 | Empiricism | Empiricism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 famous | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Empiricism | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 branch | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 branch | det |
| 13 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Empiricism | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 philosophy | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 philosophy | det |
| 16 | philosophy | philosophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 branch | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 states | nsubj |
| 18 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 philosophy | acl:relcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 valid | mark |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 knowledge | advmod |
| 21 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 valid | nsubj |
| 22 | verified | verify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 knowledge | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 experience | case |
| 24 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 verified | obl |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 valid | cop |
| 26 | valid | valid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 states | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 referred | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 referred | cc |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 Philosophy | punct |
| 30 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Philosophy | amod |
| 31 | Philosophy | philosophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 referred | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 31 Philosophy | dep |
| 33 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 34 referred | advmod |
| 34 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 famous | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 referred | xcomp |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 School | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 School | det |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 School | punct |
| 39 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 School | amod |
| 40 | School | School | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 referred | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Sense | case |
| 42 | Common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Sense | amod |
| 43 | Sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 School | obl |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 Sense | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 famous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the United Kingdom | for British Empiricism; famous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | state speech: other | present | the philosophy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | verify | participle | knowledge not said here | by experience | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | knowledge | valid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | refer | participle · passive | Scottish Philosophy | as the Scottish School of Common Sense; sometimes property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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