United States, sentence 170
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 the northwest corner of Arizona, carved by the Colorado River, is the Grand Canyon, a steep-sided canyon and popular tourist destination known for its overwhelming visual size and intricate, colorful landscape.
What happens: carve, be, know · To what, where: northwest corner, Grand Canyon, popular tourist destination
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 | _ | 4 corner | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 corner | det |
| 3 | northwest | northwest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 corner | amod |
| 4 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Canyon | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Arizona | case |
| 6 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 corner | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 carved | punct |
| 8 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 corner | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 River | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 River | det |
| 11 | Colorado | Colorado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 River | compound |
| 12 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 carved | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 corner | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Canyon | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Canyon | det |
| 16 | Grand | Grand | PROPN | _ | 17 Canyon | compound |
| 17 | Canyon | Canyon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 canyon | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 canyon | det |
| 20 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sided | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 steep | punct |
| 22 | sided | sided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 canyon | amod |
| 23 | canyon | canyon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Canyon | appos |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 destination | cc |
| 25 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 destination | amod |
| 26 | tourist | tourist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 destination | compound |
| 27 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 canyon | conj |
| 28 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 destination | acl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 size | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 size | nmod:poss |
| 31 | overwhelming | overwhelming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 size | amod |
| 32 | visual | visual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 size | amod |
| 33 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 known | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 intricate | cc |
| 35 | intricate | intricate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 size | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 landscape | punct |
| 37 | colorful | colorful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 landscape | amod |
| 38 | landscape | landscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Canyon | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 Canyon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | the northwest corner of Arizona not said here | by the Colorado River | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Grand Canyon and colorful landscape | the northwest corner of Arizona | a sided canyon and popular tourist destination appos; colorful landscape conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | know | participle | popular tourist destination not said here | for destination's overwhelming visual size and intricate | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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