United Kingdom, sentence 95
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.
After the war Britain became a permanent member of the Executive Council of the League of Nations and received a mandate over a number of former German and Ottoman colonies.
Who acts: Britain · What happens: become, receive · To what, where: permanent member, mandate, number
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 (Britain), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 war | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 war | det |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | obl |
| 4 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 member | det |
| 7 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 member | amod |
| 8 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Council | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Council | det |
| 11 | Executive | executive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Council | amod |
| 12 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 member | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 League | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 League | det |
| 15 | League | League | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Council | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Nations | case |
| 17 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 League | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 received | cc |
| 19 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mandate | det |
| 21 | mandate | mandate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 received | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 number | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 number | det |
| 24 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 received | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 colonies | case |
| 26 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 colonies | amod |
| 27 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 colonies | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Ottoman | cc |
| 29 | Ottoman | ottoman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 German | conj |
| 30 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 number | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Britain | a permanent member of the Executive Council of the League of Nations | after the war | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | receive | past | Britain not said here | a mandate | a number of former German colonies | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mandate=Theme over number=Location |
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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