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title: New Brunswick, the only officially bilingual province, has an Acadia… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: New Brunswick, the only officially bilingual province, has an Acadian French minority constituting 33 percent of the population. Who acts: New Brunswick, Acadian French minority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canada, sentence 304

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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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New Brunswick, the only officially bilingual province, has an Acadian French minority constituting 33 percent of the population.

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**Who acts:** New Brunswick, Acadian French minority · **What happens:** have, constitute · **To what, where:** Acadian French minority, 33 percent

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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 (New Brunswick, Acadian French minority), 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:304
# text = New Brunswick, the only officially bilingual province, has an Acadian French minority constituting 33 percent of the population.
1	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Brunswick	Brunswick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	bilingual	bilingual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Acadian	acadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	constituting	constitute	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	33	33	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | New Brunswick | a Acadian French minority |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minority=Patient |
| 2 | **constitute** | gerund | a Acadian French minority *not said here* | 33 percent of the population |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme percent=Pivot |

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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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