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title: A combined authority is a type of local government institution intro… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: A combined authority is a type of local government institution introduced in England outside Greater London by the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009. Who acts: combined authority, local government institution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependen
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# United Kingdom, sentence 249

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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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A combined authority is a type of local government institution introduced in England outside Greater London by the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009.

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**Who acts:** combined authority, local government institution · **What happens:** combine, be, introduce · **To what, where:** type, Greater London, England

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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 (combined authority, local government institution), 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:249
# text = A combined authority is a type of local government institution introduced in England outside Greater London by the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	combined	combine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	institution	institution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	Greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Development	Development	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	Construction	Construction	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **combine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a combined authority | a type |  |  |  | of local government institution | tree rules |
| 3 | **introduce** | participle | local government institution *not said here* | Greater London |  | England |  | by the Local Democracy | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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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