United States, sentence 528
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.
Cultural movements in art and craftsmanship in colonial America generally lagged behind those of Western Europe.
Who acts: Cultural movements · What happens: lag · To what, where: those
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 (Cultural movements), 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 | Cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 movements | amod |
| 2 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lagged | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 art | case |
| 4 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 movements | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 craftsmanship | cc |
| 6 | craftsmanship | craftsmanship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 art | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 America | case |
| 8 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 America | amod |
| 9 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 movements | nmod |
| 10 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 11 lagged | advmod |
| 11 | lagged | lag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 those | case |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 lagged | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Europe | case |
| 15 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Europe | amod |
| 16 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 those | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lagged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lag | past | Cultural movements in art and craftsmanship in colonial America | those of Western Europe | generally property | tree rules |
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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