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title: The Maple Leaf Forever", written in 1866, was popular and served as… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: The Maple Leaf Forever", written in 1866, was popular and served as an unofficial national anthem of English Canada. " Who acts: Maple Leaf. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canada, sentence 403

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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 Maple Leaf Forever", written in 1866, was popular and served as an unofficial national anthem of English Canada. "

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**Who acts:** Maple Leaf · **What happens:** write, be, serve · **To what, where:** Maple Leaf, 1866

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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 (Maple Leaf), 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:403
# text = The Maple Leaf Forever", written in 1866, was popular and served as an unofficial national anthem of English Canada. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Maple	Maple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Leaf	Leaf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	Forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1866	1866	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	unofficial	unofficial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	anthem	anthem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** *in a quote* | participle |  | the Maple Leaf *not said here* |  | 1866 |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1866=Destination |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the Maple Leaf |  |  |  |  | popular *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** *in a quote* | participle | the Maple Leaf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a unofficial national anthem of English Canada | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as anthem=Attribute |

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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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