--- title: The Scottish Government is a Scottish National Party (SNP) minority… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics description: The Scottish Government is a Scottish National Party (SNP) minority government, led by the first minister, currently John Swinney, the leader of the SNP. Who acts: Scottish Government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/256/) [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/) / 256 # United Kingdom, sentence 256 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. The Scottish Government is a Scottish National Party (SNP) minority government, led by the first minister, currently John Swinney, the leader of the SNP. **Who acts:** Scottish Government · **What happens:** be, lead · **To what, where:** Scottish National Party, minority government 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 (Scottish Government), 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:256 # text = The Scottish Government is a Scottish National Party (SNP) minority government, led by the first minister, currently John Swinney, the leader of the SNP. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 National National ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Party Party PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 SNP SNP PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 minority minority NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 amod _ _ 19 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 currently currently ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 23 Swinney Swinney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 SNP SNP PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Scottish Government | a Scottish National Party | | | | SNP *appos* | tree rules | | 2 | **lead** | participle | | a Scottish National Party's minority government *not said here* | | | | by the first minister | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by minister=Destination | 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 255](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/255/) - next →: [sentence 257](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/257/) - ↑ back to [United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/)