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Unlike Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, England does not have a separate devolved government or national parliament, rather a process of devolution of powers from the central government to local authorities has taken place, first in 1998. **Who acts:** England · **What happens:** not have, devolve, take, process · **To what, where:** separate devolved government, 1998, process, devolution, powers 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 (England), 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:United_Kingdom:245 # text = Unlike Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, England does not have a separate devolved government or national parliament, rather a process of devolution of powers from the central government to local authorities has taken place, first in 1998. 1 Unlike unlike ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 Northern Northern PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 5 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 devolved devolve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 parliament parliament NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 rather rather ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 process process NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 devolution devolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 powers power NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 authorities authority NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 35 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 parataxis _ _ 37 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 41 advmod _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 1998 1998 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | England | a separate devolved government or national parliament | | 1998 | | unlike Scotland and Northern Ireland and Wales | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Patient | | 2 | **devolve** | participle | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | present · perfect · passive | | a process of devolution of powers from the central government to local authorities | | | | place *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination | | 4 | **process** | | | devolution of powers from the central government | | | | to local authorities | nom process «act transitive»: of=patient to=obl | | 5 | **devolve** | | | powers from the central government | | | | | nom devolution «process 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 244](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/244/) - next →: [sentence 246](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/246/) - ↑ back to [United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/)