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title: There are 11 Indigenous language groups, composed of more than 65 di… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: There are 11 Indigenous language groups, composed of more than 65 distinct languages and dialects. Who acts: 11 Indigenous language groups. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canada, sentence 309

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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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There are 11 Indigenous language groups, composed of more than 65 distinct languages and dialects.

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**Who acts:** 11 Indigenous language groups · **What happens:** be, compose · **To what, where:** 11 Indigenous language groups

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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 (11 Indigenous language groups), 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:309
# text = There are 11 Indigenous language groups, composed of more than 65 distinct languages and dialects.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	12	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	65	65	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dialects	dialect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | 11 Indigenous language groups |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **compose** | participle |  | 11 Indigenous language groups *not said here* |  |  |  | of 65 distinct languages and dialects | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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