United States, sentence 58

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.

The colonies' distance from Britain facilitated the entrenchment of self-governance, and the First Great Awakening, a series of Christian revivals, fueled colonial interest in guaranteed religious liberty.

Who acts: distance · What happens: facilitate, fuel, guarantee · To what, where: entrenchment, colonial interest, guaranteed religious liberty

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 (distance), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colonies	det
2	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 distance	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 colonies	case
4	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 facilitated	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Britain	case
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 distance	nmod
7	facilitated	facilitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 entrenchment	det
9	entrenchment	entrenchment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 facilitated	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 governance	case
11	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 governance	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 self	punct
13	governance	governance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entrenchment	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Awakening	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Awakening	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Awakening	det
17	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 Awakening	amod
18	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Awakening	amod
19	Awakening	awakening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 facilitated	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 series	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 series	det
22	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Awakening	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 revivals	case
24	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 revivals	amod
25	revivals	revival	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 series	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fueled	punct
27	fueled	fuel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 Awakening	conj
28	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 interest	amod
29	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fueled	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 liberty	case
31	guaranteed	guarantee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 liberty	amod
32	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 liberty	amod
33	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 interest	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 facilitated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	facilitate	past	the colonies's distance from Britain	the entrenchment of self governance		the First Great Awakening and a series of Christian revivals parataxis	tree rules
2	fuel	participle	the colonies's distance from Britain not said here	colonial interest	guaranteed religious liberty		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent interest=Destination
3	guarantee	participle					vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition

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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United States, sentence 58