United States, sentence 131
From Wikipedia, «United States», 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.
In 1920, a constitutional amendment granted nationwide women's suffrage.
What happens: grant · To what, where: constitutional amendment
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United States». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1920 | case |
| 2 | 1920 | 1920 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 amendment | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1920 | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 amendment | det |
| 5 | constitutional | constitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 amendment | amod |
| 6 | amendment | amendment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 amendment | acl |
| 8 | nationwide | nationwide | ADP | _ | 11 suffrage | case |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 suffrage | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 women | case |
| 11 | suffrage | suffrage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 granted | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 amendment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | participle | a constitutional amendment not said here | nationwide women's suffrage | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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.
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