United Kingdom, sentence 72
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 British colonies in North America that broke away in the American War of Independence became the United States.
Who acts: British colonies · What happens: break away, become · To what, where: American War, United States
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 (British colonies), 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 colonies | det |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 colonies | amod |
| 3 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 became | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 America | case |
| 5 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 America | compound |
| 6 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 colonies | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 broke | nsubj |
| 8 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 colonies | acl:relcl |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 broke | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 War | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 War | det |
| 12 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 War | amod |
| 13 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Independence | case |
| 15 | Independence | Independence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 War | nmod |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 States | det |
| 18 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 States | amod |
| 19 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 became | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break away | past | the British colonies in North America | the American War of Independence | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in war=Location | |||
| 2 | become | past | the British colonies in North America | the United States | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient state=Result |
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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