United States, sentence 49
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.
Early European colonies also included the thriving Dutch colony of New Nederland (settled 1626, present-day New York) and the small Swedish colony of New Sweden (settled 1638 in what became Delaware).
Who acts: Early European colonies, New Nederland, New Sweden · What happens: include, thrive, settle, become · To what, where: thriving Dutch colony, 1626, 1638
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 (Early European colonies, New Nederland, New Sweden), 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 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 colonies | amod |
| 2 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 colonies | amod |
| 3 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 included | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 included | advmod |
| 5 | included | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 colony | det |
| 7 | thriving | thrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 colony | amod |
| 8 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 colony | amod |
| 9 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 included | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Nederland | case |
| 11 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Nederland | amod |
| 12 | Nederland | Nederland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 colony | nmod |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 settled | punct |
| 14 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Nederland | acl |
| 15 | 1626 | 1626 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 settled | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 day | punct |
| 17 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 present | punct |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 colony | conj |
| 20 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 York | flat |
| 21 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 day | nmod |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 York | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 colony | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 colony | det |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 colony | amod |
| 26 | Swedish | Swedish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 colony | amod |
| 27 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 colony | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Sweden | case |
| 29 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Sweden | amod |
| 30 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 colony | nmod |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 settled | punct |
| 32 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 Sweden | acl |
| 33 | 1638 | 1638 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 settled | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 36 became | mark |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 became | nsubj |
| 36 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 settled | advcl |
| 37 | Delaware | Delaware | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 became | xcomp |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 Delaware | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 included | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | past | Early European colonies | the thriving Dutch colony of New Nederland and present day New York and the small Swedish colony of New Sweden | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thrive | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | settle | participle | New Nederland not said here | 1626 | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | settle | participle | New Sweden not said here | 1638 | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | become | past | what nsubj; Delaware xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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