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description: Scotland has the most devolved powers of any of the three devolved parliaments in the United Kingdom, with full legislative control over education, law and order, the economy, healthcare, elections, Crown Estate Scotland, the planning system and housing. Who acts: Scotland, devolved powers. A senten
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# United Kingdom, sentence 253

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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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Scotland has the most devolved powers of any of the three devolved parliaments in the United Kingdom, with full legislative control over education, law and order, the economy, healthcare, elections, Crown Estate Scotland, the planning system and housing.

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**Who acts:** Scotland, devolved powers · **What happens:** have, devolve · **To what, where:** parliaments, United Kingdom

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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 (Scotland, devolved powers), 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:253
# text = Scotland has the most devolved powers of any of the three devolved parliaments in the United Kingdom, with full legislative control over education, law and order, the economy, healthcare, elections, Crown Estate Scotland, the planning system and housing.
1	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	devolved	devolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
12	devolved	devolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	parliaments	parliament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	17	flat	_	_
17	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	healthcare	healthcare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	Crown	Crown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Estate	Estate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
39	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	housing	housing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Scotland |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **devolve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **devolve** | past | the devolved powers of any of the three | parliaments |  | the United Kingdom |  | full legislative control over education and law and order and the economy and healthcare and elections and Crown Estate *parataxis* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent parliament=Theme |

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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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