United States, sentence 370
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.
Long-distance intercity travel is provided primarily by airlines, but travel by rail is more common along the Northeast Corridor, where the only high-speed rail in the U.S. that meets international standards operates.
Who acts: airlines, travel, only speed rail, rail · What happens: provide, be, meet, operate, travel · To what, where: distance intercity travel, international standards
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 (airlines, travel, only speed rail, rail), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 distance | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
| 3 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travel | compound |
| 4 | intercity | intercity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travel | compound |
| 5 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 provided | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 provided | aux:pass |
| 7 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | primarily | primarily | ADV | _ | 7 provided | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 airlines | case |
| 10 | airlines | airline | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 provided | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 common | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 common | cc |
| 13 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 common | nsubj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 rail | case |
| 15 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 travel | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 common | cop |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 common | advmod |
| 18 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 provided | conj |
| 19 | along | along | ADP | _ | 22 Corridor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Corridor | det |
| 21 | Northeast | Northeast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Corridor | compound |
| 22 | Corridor | Corridor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 common | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 operates | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 operates | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rail | det |
| 26 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 rail | amod |
| 27 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 speed | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 high | punct |
| 29 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rail | compound |
| 30 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 operates | nsubj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 U.S. | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 U.S. | det |
| 33 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 rail | nmod |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 meets | nsubj |
| 35 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 rail | acl:relcl |
| 36 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 standards | amod |
| 37 | standards | standard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 meets | obj |
| 38 | operates | operate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 Corridor | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | present · passive | airlines | distance intercity travel | primarily property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | travel by rail | along the Northeast Corridor; common property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet | present | the only speed rail in the U.S. | international standards | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | operate | present | the only speed rail in the U.S. | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | travel | rail | nom travel «act intransitive»: by=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.
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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