United States, sentence 478
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.
Colonial American authors were influenced by John Locke and other Enlightenment philosophers.
Who acts: John · What happens: influence · To what, where: Colonial American authors
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 (John), 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 | Colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 authors | amod |
| 2 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 authors | amod |
| 3 | authors | author | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 influenced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 influenced | aux:pass |
| 5 | influenced | influence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 John | case |
| 7 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 influenced | obl:agent |
| 8 | Locke | Locke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 John | flat |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 philosophers | cc |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 philosophers | amod |
| 11 | Enlightenment | enlightenment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 philosophers | compound |
| 12 | philosophers | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 John | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 influenced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | influence | past · passive | John and other Enlightenment philosophers | Colonial American authors | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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