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title: Devolution differs from federalism in that the devolved powers of th… — Danish Realm · tree and pragmatics
description: Devolution differs from federalism in that the devolved powers of the subnational authority ultimately reside in central government, thus the state remains de jure unitary. Who acts: Devolution, devolved powers, state. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Danish Realm» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Danish Realm, sentence 95

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From Wikipedia, [«Danish Realm»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_Realm), 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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Devolution differs from federalism in that the devolved powers of the subnational authority ultimately reside in central government, thus the state remains de jure unitary.

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**Who acts:** Devolution, devolved powers, state · **What happens:** differ, devolve, reside, remain · **To what, where:** central government, de

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Danish Realm». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Devolution, devolved powers, state), 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:Danish_Realm:95
# text = Devolution differs from federalism in that the devolved powers of the subnational authority ultimately reside in central government, thus the state remains de jure unitary.
1	Devolution	devolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	differs	differ	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	federalism	federalism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	devolved	devolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	subnational	subnational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	reside	reside	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	jure	jure	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat	_	_
26	unitary	unitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **differ** | present | Devolution |  |  |  |  | from federalism | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from federalism=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **devolve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reside** | present | the devolved powers of the subnational authority |  |  | central government |  | ultimately *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in government=Location |
| 4 | **remain** | present | the state | de |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme de=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, «Danish Realm», 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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