United States, sentence 239

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 lowest level in the federal judiciary is the federal district court, which decides all cases considered to be under "original jurisdiction", such as federal statutes, constitutional law, or international treaties.

Who acts: lowest level, federal district court · What happens: be, decide, consider · To what, where: federal district court, cases, original jurisdiction

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 (lowest level, federal district court), 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 level	det
2	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 level	amod
3	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 court	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 judiciary	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 judiciary	det
6	federal	federal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 judiciary	amod
7	judiciary	judiciary	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 level	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 court	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 court	det
10	federal	federal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 court	amod
11	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 court	compound
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 decides	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 decides	nsubj
15	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 court	parataxis
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 cases	det
17	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 decides	obj
18	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 cases	acl
19	to	to	PART	_	24 jurisdiction	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 jurisdiction	cop
21	under	under	ADP	_	24 jurisdiction	case
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 jurisdiction	punct
23	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 jurisdiction	amod
24	jurisdiction	jurisdiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 considered	xcomp
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 jurisdiction	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 statutes	punct
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	30 statutes	case
28	as	as	ADP	_	27 such	fixed
29	federal	federal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 statutes	amod
30	statutes	statute	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 jurisdiction	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 law	punct
32	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 law	amod
33	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 statutes	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 treaties	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 treaties	cc
36	international	international	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 treaties	amod
37	treaties	treaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 decides	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 court	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the lowest level in the federal judiciary	the federal district court			tree rules
2	decide	present	the federal district court	all cases		international treaties conj	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent case=Topic
3	consider	participle		all cases not said here			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive			original jurisdiction and federal statutes and constitutional law	federal statutes and constitutional law conj	tree rules

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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United States, sentence 239