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title: In 2014 the Scottish independence referendum was held, with 55.3 per… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2014 the Scottish independence referendum was held, with 55.3 per cent voting against independence from the United Kingdom and 44.7 per cent voting in favour, resulting in Scotland staying within the United Kingdom. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# United Kingdom, sentence 257

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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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In 2014 the Scottish independence referendum was held, with 55.3 per cent voting against independence from the United Kingdom and 44.7 per cent voting in favour, resulting in Scotland staying within the United Kingdom.

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**What happens:** hold, result, stay · **To what, where:** Scottish independence referendum, 2014, Scotland

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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: 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:257
# text = In 2014 the Scottish independence referendum was held, with 55.3 per cent voting against independence from the United Kingdom and 44.7 per cent voting in favour, resulting in Scotland staying within the United Kingdom.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	55.3	55.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	_	8	obl	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	20	flat	_	_
20	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	44.7	44.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
23	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	resulting	result	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
33	within	within	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	36	flat	_	_
36	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the Scottish independence referendum |  | 2014 |  | with cent voting against independence from the United Kingdom and 44.7 cent voting in favour | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in 2014=Location |
| 2 | **result** | gerund |  |  |  | Scotland |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in scotland=Location |
| 3 | **stay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | within the United Kingdom | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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