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title: Settler colonialism reached a climax in the late 19th and early 20th… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: Settler colonialism reached a climax in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Who acts: Settler colonialism. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canada, sentence 47

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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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Settler colonialism reached a climax in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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**Who acts:** Settler colonialism · **What happens:** reach · **To what, where:** climax

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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 (Settler colonialism), 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:47
# text = Settler colonialism reached a climax in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1	Settler	settler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	colonialism	colonialism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	climax	climax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
8	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
9	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Settler colonialism | a climax |  |  | century |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent climax=Theme |

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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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