United States, sentence 221
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.
One of its foremost non-legislative functions is the power to investigate and oversee the executive branch.
Who acts: One · What happens: be, investigate, oversee · To what, where: power, executive branch
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 (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 power | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 functions | case |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 functions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | foremost | foremost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 functions | amod |
| 5 | non-legislative | non-legislative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 functions | amod |
| 6 | functions | function | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 power | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 power | det |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 investigate | mark |
| 11 | investigate | investigate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 power | acl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 oversee | cc |
| 13 | oversee | oversee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 investigate | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 branch | det |
| 15 | executive | executive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 branch | amod |
| 16 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 oversee | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 power | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | One of impeachment's foremost non-legislative functions | the power | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | investigate | to-infinitive | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | oversee | infinitive | the executive branch | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent branch=Eventuality |
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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