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title: Canada is recognized as a middle power; its support for multilateral… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: Canada is recognized as a middle power; its support for multilateralism and internationalism has been closely related to its foreign policies of peacekeeping and aid for developing countries. Who acts: support, aid, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canada, sentence 20

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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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Canada is recognized as a middle power; its support for multilateralism and internationalism has been closely related to its foreign policies of peacekeeping and aid for developing countries.

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**Who acts:** support, aid, country · **What happens:** recognize, be, develop, support · **To what, where:** Canada, countries

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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 (support, aid, country), 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:20
# text = Canada is recognized as a middle power; its support for multilateralism and internationalism has been closely related to its foreign policies of peacekeeping and aid for developing countries.
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	multilateralism	multilateralism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	internationalism	internationalism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	policies	policy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	peacekeeping	peacekeeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	developing	develop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
29	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognize** | present · passive |  | Canada |  |  |  | as a middle power | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as power=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | country's support for multilateralism and internationalism |  |  |  |  | to country's foreign policies of peacekeeping and aid; closely, related *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **develop** | gerund | aid *not said here* | countries |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Product |
| 4 | **support** |  | country |  |  |  |  | for multilateralism | nom support «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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