United States, sentence 493
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.
An important cultural export during the Jazz Age, these writings were a key influence on Négritude, a philosophy emerging in the 1930s among francophone writers of the African diaspora.
Who acts: writings, philosophy · What happens: be, emerge · To what, where: key influence, Négritude, 1930s, important cultural export
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 (writings, philosophy), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 export | det |
| 2 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 export | amod |
| 3 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 export | amod |
| 4 | export | export | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | during | during | ADP | _ | 8 Age | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Age | det |
| 7 | Jazz | Jazz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Age | compound |
| 8 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 export | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 influence | punct |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 writings | det |
| 11 | writings | writing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 influence | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 influence | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 influence | det |
| 14 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 influence | amod |
| 15 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 export | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Négritude | case |
| 17 | Négritude | négritude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 influence | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 philosophy | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 philosophy | det |
| 20 | philosophy | philosophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 export | conj |
| 21 | emerging | emerge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 philosophy | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 1930s | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 1930s | det |
| 24 | 1930s | 1930 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 21 emerging | obl |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 writers | case |
| 26 | francophone | francophone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 writers | compound |
| 27 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 emerging | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 diaspora | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 diaspora | det |
| 30 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 diaspora | amod |
| 31 | diaspora | diaspora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 writers | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 export | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this writings | a key influence | Négritude | tree rules | |||
| 2 | emerge | gerund | a philosophy not said here | the 1930s | among francophone writers of the African diaspora | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1930=Location |
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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