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title: The United Kingdom was one of the Big Three powers (with the United… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: The United Kingdom was one of the Big Three powers (with the United States and the Soviet Union) who met to plan the post-war world; it drafted the Declaration by United Nations with the United States and became one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Who acts: Unit
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# United Kingdom, sentence 117

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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 was one of the Big Three powers (with the United States and the Soviet Union) who met to plan the post-war world; it drafted the Declaration by United Nations with the United States and became one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

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**Who acts:** United Kingdom, Big Three powers, world · **What happens:** be, meet, plan, draft, become · **To what, where:** one, post-war world, Declaration

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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, Big Three powers, world), 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:117
# text = The United Kingdom was one of the Big Three powers (with the United States and the Soviet Union) who met to plan the post-war world; it drafted the Declaration by United Nations with the United States and became one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
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	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	plan	plan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	post-war	post-war	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	drafted	draft	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Declaration	declaration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	35	compound	_	_
35	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
42	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	xcomp	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
46	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	51	compound	_	_
51	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
52	Security	Security	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the United Kingdom | one |  |  |  | of the Big Three powers | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | past | the Big Three powers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **plan** | to-infinitive | the Big Three powers *not said here* | the post-war world |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Topic |
| 4 | **draft** | past | world | the Declaration |  |  |  | by United Nations; with the United States | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent declaration=Result |
| 5 | **become** | past | world *not said here* |  |  |  |  | one of the five permanent members of the United Nations and Security Council *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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