--- title: Additional powers were transferred to the Scottish Parliament via th… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics description: Additional powers were transferred to the Scottish Parliament via the Scotland Act 2012 and the Scotland Act 2016, such as some taxation powers, including full control of income tax on income earned through employment, Land and Buildings Transaction Tax, Landfill Tax, Aggregates Levy, Air Departure --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/254/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/) / 254 # United Kingdom, sentence 254 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. Additional powers were transferred to the Scottish Parliament via the Scotland Act 2012 and the Scotland Act 2016, such as some taxation powers, including full control of income tax on income earned through employment, Land and Buildings Transaction Tax, Landfill Tax, Aggregates Levy, Air Departure Tax and Revenue Scotland, as well as aspects of the energy network, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and onshore oil and gas licensing. **Who acts:** oil · **What happens:** transfer, earn, license · **To what, where:** Additional powers, Scottish Parliament, income tax, employment 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 (oil), 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:254 # text = Additional powers were transferred to the Scottish Parliament via the Scotland Act 2012 and the Scotland Act 2016, such as some taxation powers, including full control of income tax on income earned through employment, Land and Buildings Transaction Tax, Landfill Tax, Aggregates Levy, Air Departure Tax and Revenue Scotland, as well as aspects of the energy network, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and onshore oil and gas licensing. 1 Additional additional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 powers power NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 transferred transfer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Parliament parliament NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 via via ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Act Act PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 2012 2012 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 flat _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Act Act PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 2016 2016 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 24 case _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 23 taxation taxation NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 powers power NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 including including ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 income income NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 income income NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 earned earn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 35 through through ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 employment employment NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Land Land PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 Buildings Buildings PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 Transaction Transaction PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 flat _ _ 42 Tax Tax PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 Landfill Landfill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 Tax Tax PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 Aggregates Aggregates PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 48 Levy Levy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 Air Air PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 appos _ _ 51 Departure Departure PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 flat _ _ 52 Tax Tax PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 flat _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 Revenue Revenue PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 55 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 57 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 60 cc _ _ 58 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 57 fixed _ _ 59 as as ADP IN _ 57 fixed _ _ 60 aspects aspect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 63 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 compound _ _ 64 network network NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 66 including including ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 renewable renewable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 amod _ _ 68 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ _ 70 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 compound _ _ 71 efficiency efficiency NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 conj _ _ 72 and and CCONJ CC _ 74 cc _ _ 73 onshore onshore ADV RB _ 74 advmod _ _ 74 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 conj _ _ 75 and and CCONJ CC _ 76 cc _ _ 76 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 conj _ _ 77 licensing license VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 74 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 78 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **transfer** | past · passive | | Additional powers | the Scottish Parliament via the Scotland Act and the Scotland Act and some taxation powers | | | aspects of the energy network and renewable energy and energy efficiency and oil and gas *obl*; full control of income tax on income *parataxis* | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to parliament=Recipient | | 2 | **earn** | participle | | income tax on income *not said here* | | employment | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **license** | gerund | oil and gas *not said here* | | | | | | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 253](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/253/) - next →: [sentence 255](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/255/) - ↑ back to [United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/)