United States, sentence 349
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 1961, the United States became the second country (after the Soviet Union) to successfully launch a human into space.
Who acts: United States · What happens: become, launch · To what, where: second country, 1961, human, space
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), 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 1961 | case |
| 2 | 1961 | 1961 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 became | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1961 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 States | det |
| 5 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 States | amod |
| 6 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 country | amod |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | xcomp |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Union | punct |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 Union | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Union | det |
| 14 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Union | compound |
| 15 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 country | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 Union | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 launch | mark |
| 18 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 19 launch | advmod |
| 19 | launch | launch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 became | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 human | det |
| 21 | human | human | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 launch | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 space | case |
| 23 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 launch | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the United States | the second country | 1961 | tree rules | |||
| 2 | launch | to-infinitive | the United States not said here | a human | into space result; successfully property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer human=Theme into space=Result |
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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