United States, sentence 52
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.
While European settlers in what is now the United States experienced conflicts with Native Americans, they also engaged in trade, exchanging European tools for food and animal pelts.
Who acts: United States, States · What happens: be, engage, exchange · To what, where: trade, European tools
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 (United States, States), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 what | mark |
| 2 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 settlers | amod |
| 3 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 what | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 what | case |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 experienced | cop |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 experienced | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 States | det |
| 9 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 States | amod |
| 10 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 experienced | nsubj |
| 11 | experienced | experience | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | conflicts | conflict | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 experienced | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Americans | case |
| 14 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Americans | amod |
| 15 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 experienced | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 engaged | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 engaged | nsubj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 engaged | advmod |
| 19 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 experienced | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 trade | case |
| 21 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 engaged | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 exchanging | punct |
| 23 | exchanging | exchange | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 engaged | advcl |
| 24 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tools | amod |
| 25 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 exchanging | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 food | case |
| 27 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 exchanging | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pelts | cc |
| 29 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pelts | compound |
| 30 | pelts | pelt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 food | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the United States | now | with Native Americans; conflicts obj; experience property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | engage | past | States = state | in trade goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in trade=Goal | ||||
| 3 | exchange | gerund | States = state not said here | European tools | for food and animal pelts | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent tool=Theme for food=Co-Theme |
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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