--- title: At the federal level, Canada has been dominated by two relatively ce… — Canada · tree and pragmatics description: At the federal level, Canada has been dominated by two relatively centrist parties practising "brokerage politics": the centre-left leaning Liberal Party of Canada and the centre-right leaning Conservative Party of Canada (or its predecessors). Who acts: two centrist parties, Conservative Party. 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At the federal level, Canada has been dominated by two relatively centrist parties practising "brokerage politics": the centre-left leaning Liberal Party of Canada and the centre-right leaning Conservative Party of Canada (or its predecessors). **Who acts:** two centrist parties, Conservative Party · **What happens:** dominate, practise, leave, lean, predecessor · **To what, where:** Canada, federal level, brokerage politics, centre right This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canada». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two centrist parties, Conservative Party), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Canada:172 # text = At the federal level, Canada has been dominated by two relatively centrist parties practising "brokerage politics": the centre-left leaning Liberal Party of Canada and the centre-right leaning Conservative Party of Canada (or its predecessors). 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 federal federal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 dominated dominate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 12 relatively relatively ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 centrist centrist NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:agent _ _ 15 practising practise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 brokerage brokerage NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 politics politics NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 22 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 25 leaning lean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 amod _ _ 26 Liberal Liberal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Party Party PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 32 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 nmod:unmarked _ _ 35 leaning lean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 amod _ _ 36 Conservative Conservative PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Party Party PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 predecessors predecessor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dominate** | present · perfect · passive | two centrist parties | Canada | | the federal level | | the left leaning Liberal Party of Canada and level's leaning predecessors *obl* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | | 2 | **practise** | gerund | two centrist parties *not said here* | brokerage politics | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | participle | | | | | | centre *compound* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lean** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lean** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **predecessor** | | Conservative Party of Canada | centre right | | | | level *nmod:poss* | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Canada», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0. - ← previous: [sentence 171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Canada/171/) - next →: [sentence 173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Canada/173/) - ↑ back to [Canada](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Canada/)