--- title: A combined county authority is a similar type of local-government in… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics description: A combined county authority is a similar type of local-government institution introduced in England outside Greater London by the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023, but may only be formed by upper-tier authorities: county councils and unitary authorities. 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A combined county authority is a similar type of local-government institution introduced in England outside Greater London by the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023, but may only be formed by upper-tier authorities: county councils and unitary authorities. **Who acts:** combined county authority, government institution, tier authorities · **What happens:** combine, be, introduce, form · **To what, where:** similar type, Greater London, England 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 county authority, government institution, tier authorities), 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:251 # text = A combined county authority is a similar type of local-government institution introduced in England outside Greater London by the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023, but may only be formed by upper-tier authorities: county councils and unitary authorities. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 combined combine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 3 county county NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 authority authority NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 type type NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 institution institution NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 14 introduced introduce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 outside outside ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 Greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 Levelling levelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 Regeneration Regeneration PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Act Act PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 2023 2023 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 formed form VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 tier tier NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 authorities authority NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 : : PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 41 county county ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 councils council NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 unitary unitary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 authorities authority NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | 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 county authority | a similar type | | | | of government institution | tree rules | | 3 | **introduce** | participle | government institution *not said here* | Greater London | | England | | by the Levelling up and Regeneration Act | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **form** | may · passive | tier authorities and county councils and unitary authorities | a similar type *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 250](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/250/) - next →: [sentence 252](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/252/) - ↑ back to [United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/)