--- title: Germany ranked 21st in the world in 2019 in life expectancy with 78.… — Germany · tree and pragmatics description: Germany ranked 21st in the world in 2019 in life expectancy with 78.7 years for men and 84.8 years for women according to the WHO, and it had a very low infant mortality rate of 4 deaths per 1,000 live births. as of 2019, the principal cause of death was cardiovascular disease, at 37%. 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Germany ranked 21st in the world in 2019 in life expectancy with 78.7 years for men and 84.8 years for women according to the WHO, and it had a very low infant mortality rate of 4 deaths per 1,000 live births. as of 2019, the principal cause of death was cardiovascular disease, at 37%. **Who acts:** Germany, WHO, principal cause · **What happens:** rank, accord, have, be, cause · **To what, where:** 21st, world, low infant mortality rate, cardiovascular disease, death This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Germany». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Germany, WHO, principal cause), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Germany:330 # text = Germany ranked 21st in the world in 2019 in life expectancy with 78.7 years for men and 84.8 years for women according to the WHO, and it had a very low infant mortality rate of 4 deaths per 1,000 live births. as of 2019, the principal cause of death was cardiovascular disease, at 37%. 1 Germany Germany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ranked rank VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 21st 21st NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 2 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 expectancy expectancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 78.7 78.7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 84.8 84.8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 22 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 case _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 WHO who NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 31 very very ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 33 infant infant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 mortality mortality NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 rate rate NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 39 per per ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 41 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 births birth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 44 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 46 case _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 44 fixed _ _ 46 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 principal principal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 53 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 cop _ _ 54 cardiovascular cardiovascular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 at at ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 37 37 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 59 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 55 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rank** | past | Germany | 21st | | the world | year | in 2019; in life expectancy; for men and 84.8 years; for women; accord the WHO; as 2019 | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent 21st=Theme as 2019=Attribute | | 2 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | past | WHO | a low infant mortality rate of 4 deaths 1,000 live births | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rate=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | past | the principal cause of death | cardiovascular disease | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cause** | | | death | | | | | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Germany», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 329](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Germany/329/) - next →: [sentence 331](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Germany/331/) - ↑ back to [Germany](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Germany/)