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title: Between 1871 and 1896, almost one quarter of the Canadian population… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: Between 1871 and 1896, almost one quarter of the Canadian population emigrated south to the US. Who acts: one quarter. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canada, sentence 90

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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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Between 1871 and 1896, almost one quarter of the Canadian population emigrated south to the US.

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**Who acts:** one quarter · **What happens:** emigrate · **To what, where:** US

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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 (one quarter), 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:90
# text = Between 1871 and 1896, almost one quarter of the Canadian population emigrated south to the US.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1871	1871	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	1896	1896	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	emigrated	emigrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	south	south	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **emigrate** | past | one quarter of the Canadian population |  | the US |  |  | between 1871; south *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to us=Initial\_Location |

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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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