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title: Canadian federalism divides government responsibilities between the… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: Canadian federalism divides government responsibilities between the federal government and the 10 provinces. Who acts: Canadian federalism. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canada, sentence 190

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From Wikipedia, [«Canada»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Canadian federalism divides government responsibilities between the federal government and the 10 provinces.

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**Who acts:** Canadian federalism · **What happens:** divide · **To what, where:** government responsibilities

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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 (Canadian federalism), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:190
# text = Canadian federalism divides government responsibilities between the federal government and the 10 provinces.
1	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	federalism	federalism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	divides	divide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	responsibilities	responsibility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | present | Canadian federalism | government responsibilities |  |  |  | between the federal government and the 10 provinces | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent responsibility=Theme |

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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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**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.

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