United States, sentence 137
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.
The United States was one of the "Four Policemen" who met to plan the post-war world, alongside the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China.
Who acts: United States, Four Policemen · What happens: be, meet, plan · To what, where: one, post-war world
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: who acts (United States, Four Policemen), 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 States | det |
| 2 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 States | amod |
| 3 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Policemen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Policemen | det |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Policemen | punct |
| 9 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Policemen | nummod |
| 10 | Policemen | policeman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Policemen | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 met | nsubj |
| 13 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Policemen | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 plan | mark |
| 15 | plan | plan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 met | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 17 | post-war | post-war | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 world | amod |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plan | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Kingdom | punct |
| 20 | alongside | alongside | ADP | _ | 23 Kingdom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Kingdom | det |
| 22 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 23 Kingdom | flat |
| 23 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 plan | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Union | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Union | det |
| 26 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Union | compound |
| 27 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Kingdom | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 China | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 China | cc |
| 30 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Kingdom | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the United States | one | of the Four Policemen | tree rules | |||
| 2 | meet | past | the Four Policemen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | plan | to-infinitive | the Four Policemen not said here | the post-war world | the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union and China parataxis | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Topic |
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 States», 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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