United Kingdom, sentence 81
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.
Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857 the British government led by Lord Palmerston assumed direct rule over India.
Who acts: Following Indian Rebellion · What happens: follow, lead, assume · To what, where: British government, direct rule, India
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 (Following Indian Rebellion), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Rebellion | amod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rebellion | det |
| 3 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Rebellion | amod |
| 4 | Rebellion | Rebellion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 assumed | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 1857 | case |
| 6 | 1857 | 1857 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 assumed | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 government | det |
| 8 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 government | amod |
| 9 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assumed | nsubj |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 government | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Lord | case |
| 12 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obl:agent |
| 13 | Palmerston | Palmerston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lord | flat |
| 14 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rule | amod |
| 16 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assumed | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 India | case |
| 18 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 rule | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 assumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | lead | participle | the British government not said here | Lord obl:agent | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | assume | past | the Following Indian Rebellion | direct rule | India | of 1857; the British government nsubj | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=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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