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title: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly k… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. Who acts: United Kingdom. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics
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# United Kingdom, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«United Kingdom»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom), 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 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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**Who acts:** United Kingdom · **What happens:** know, be · **To what, where:** country, northwestern Europe

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Kingdom». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (United Kingdom), 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:United_Kingdom:1
# text = The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	3	flat	_	_
3	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Northern	Northern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	16	flat	_	_
16	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	northwestern	northwestern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as the United Kingdom or Britain; commonly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as kingdom=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | a country and the coast of the continental mainland |  | northwestern Europe |  | the coast of the continental mainland *conj* | tree rules |

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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, «United Kingdom», 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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