United States, sentence 438
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 U.S. healthcare system far outspends that of any other country, measured both in per capita spending and as a percentage of GDP, but attains worse healthcare outcomes when compared to peer countries for reasons that are debated.
Who acts: U.S. healthcare system · What happens: outspend, measure, attain, compare, peer, debate · To what, where: that, other country, capita spending, worse healthcare outcomes, countries, reasons
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 (U.S. healthcare system), 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 | 4 system | det |
| 2 | U.S. | U.S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 system | compound |
| 3 | healthcare | healthcare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 system | compound |
| 4 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 outspends | nsubj |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 outspends | advmod |
| 6 | outspends | outspend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 outspends | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 country | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 country | amod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 that | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 measured | punct |
| 13 | measured | measure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 country | acl |
| 14 | both | both | ADV | _ | 13 measured | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 spending | case |
| 16 | per | per | ADP | _ | 18 spending | case |
| 17 | capita | capita | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spending | compound |
| 18 | spending | spending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 measured | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 percentage | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 percentage | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 percentage | det |
| 22 | percentage | percentage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spending | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 GDP | case |
| 24 | GDP | GDP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 percentage | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 attains | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 attains | cc |
| 27 | attains | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 outspends | conj |
| 28 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 outcomes | amod |
| 29 | healthcare | healthcare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 outcomes | compound |
| 30 | outcomes | outcome | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 attains | obj |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 compared | advmod |
| 32 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 attains | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 peer | mark |
| 34 | peer | peer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 compared | xcomp |
| 35 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 peer | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 reasons | case |
| 37 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 peer | obl |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 debated | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 debated | aux:pass |
| 40 | debated | debate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 reasons | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 outspends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outspend | present | the U.S. healthcare system | that of any other country | far property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | measure | participle | any other country not said here | capita spending and a percentage of GDP | both property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | attain | present | the U.S. healthcare system not said here | worse healthcare outcomes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outcome=Theme | ||||
| 4 | compare | participle | the U.S. healthcare system not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | peer | to-infinitive | the U.S. healthcare system not said here | countries | for reasons | tree rules | |||
| 6 | debate | present · passive | reasons | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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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