United States, sentence 476
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.
Americans tend to greatly value socioeconomic achievement, but being ordinary or average is promoted by some as a noble condition as well.
Who acts: Americans, some · What happens: tend, value, be, promote · To what, where: socioeconomic achievement
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 (Americans, some), 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 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 tend | nsubj |
| 2 | tend | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 value | mark |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 value | advmod |
| 5 | value | value | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tend | xcomp |
| 6 | socioeconomic | socioeconomic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 achievement | amod |
| 7 | achievement | achievement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 value | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 promoted | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 promoted | cc |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ordinary | cop |
| 11 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 promoted | csubj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 average | cc |
| 13 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ordinary | conj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 promoted | aux:pass |
| 15 | promoted | promote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tend | parataxis |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 some | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 promoted | obl:agent |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 condition | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 condition | det |
| 20 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 condition | amod |
| 21 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 promoted | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 15 promoted | advmod |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tend | present | Americans | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | value | to-infinitive | Americans not said here | socioeconomic achievement | greatly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer achievement=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | gerund | ordinary property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | promote | present · passive | some | as a noble condition | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: 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.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_States/476/