United States, sentence 396
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.
Asian Americans are the country's fourth-largest group, composing 5.9% of the United States population.
Who acts: Asian Americans, fourth largest group · What happens: be, compose · To what, where: fourth largest group
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 (Asian Americans, fourth largest group), 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 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Americans | amod |
| 2 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 group | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 group | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 group | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 country | case |
| 7 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 group | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 fourth | punct |
| 9 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 group | amod |
| 10 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 composing | punct |
| 12 | composing | compose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 group | acl |
| 13 | 5.9 | 5.9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 % | nummod |
| 14 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 12 composing | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 population | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 population | det |
| 17 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 States | amod |
| 18 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 population | compound |
| 19 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 % | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 group | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Asian Americans | the country's fourth largest group | the country nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | compose | gerund | the country's fourth largest group not said here | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=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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