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title: The Government of Canada has played a role in the development of art… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: The Government of Canada has played a role in the development of art, through the department of Canadian Heritage by giving grants to art galleries, as well as by establishing and funding art schools and colleges across the country, and through the Canada Council for the Arts. A sentence of Wikipedi
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# Canada, sentence 392

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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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The Government of Canada has played a role in the development of art, through the department of Canadian Heritage by giving grants to art galleries, as well as by establishing and funding art schools and colleges across the country, and through the Canada Council for the Arts.

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**What happens:** play, give, establish, fund, develop · **To what, where:** Government, development, grants, art schools, country, art

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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: 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:392
# text = The Government of Canada has played a role in the development of art, through the department of Canadian Heritage by giving grants to art galleries, as well as by establishing and funding art schools and colleges across the country, and through the Canada Council for the Arts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	department	department	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
23	grants	grant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	galleries	gallery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	32	cc	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	fixed	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
31	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	establishing	establish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	funding	fund	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
35	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	colleges	college	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	across	across	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	through	through	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	Arts	Art	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Government of Canada |  | the development of art |  | through the Canada Council for the Arts; a role *obj*; the department of Canadian Heritage *parataxis* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary role=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | gerund |  | grants |  |  |  | art galleries *advcl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grant=Theme |
| 3 | **establish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **fund** | gerund |  | art schools and colleges |  | the country |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **develop** |  |  | art |  |  |  |  | nom development «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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