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title: Canada has long been reluctant to participate in military interventi… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: Canada has long been reluctant to participate in military interventions that are not sanctioned by the United Nations, such as the Vietnam War, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2026 Iran war. Who acts: Canada, United Nations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Canada, sentence 233

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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 has long been reluctant to participate in military interventions that are not sanctioned by the United Nations, such as the Vietnam War, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2026 Iran war.

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**Who acts:** Canada, United Nations · **What happens:** be, participate, not sanction, invade · **To what, where:** military interventions, Iraq

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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 (Canada, United Nations), 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:233
# text = Canada has long been reluctant to participate in military interventions that are not sanctioned by the United Nations, such as the Vietnam War, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2026 Iran war.
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	participate	participate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	interventions	intervention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	sanctioned	sanction	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	18	compound	_	_
18	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	compound	_	_
28	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	compound	_	_
34	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | Canada |  |  |  |  | long, reluctant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **participate** | to-infinitive | Canada *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in military interventions such the Vietnam War and the 2026 Iran war | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in intervention=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **sanction** | present · passive | the United Nations | military interventions such the Vietnam War and the 2026 Iran war |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **invade** |  |  | Iraq |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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