United States, sentence 363
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 extensive Interstate Highway System that connects all major U.S. cities is funded mostly by the federal government but maintained by state departments of transportation.
Who acts: extensive Interstate, federal government · What happens: connect, fund, maintain · To what, where: major U.S. cities, extensive Interstate
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 (extensive Interstate, federal government), 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 Interstate | det |
| 2 | extensive | extensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Interstate | amod |
| 3 | Interstate | interstate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 funded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | Highway | Highway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 System | compound |
| 5 | System | System | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Interstate | appos |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 connects | nsubj |
| 7 | connects | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Interstate | acl:relcl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 cities | det |
| 9 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cities | amod |
| 10 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cities | compound |
| 11 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 connects | obj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 funded | aux:pass |
| 13 | funded | fund | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 13 funded | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 government | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 government | det |
| 17 | federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 government | amod |
| 18 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 funded | obl:agent |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 maintained | cc |
| 20 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 funded | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 departments | case |
| 22 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 departments | compound |
| 23 | departments | department | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 maintained | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 transportation | case |
| 25 | transportation | transportation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 departments | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 funded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | connect | present | the extensive Interstate | all major U.S. cities | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fund | present · passive | the federal government | the extensive Interstate | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | maintain | participle | the federal government not said here | by state departments of transportation | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent |
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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