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title: The UK space industry was worth £17.5 billion in 2020/21 and employe… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: The UK space industry was worth £17.5 billion in 2020/21 and employed around 48,800 people. Who acts: UK space industry. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Kingdom, sentence 348

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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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The UK space industry was worth £17.5 billion in 2020/21 and employed around 48,800 people.

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**Who acts:** UK space industry · **What happens:** be, employ · **To what, where:** 48,800 people

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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 (UK space industry), 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:348
# text = The UK space industry was worth £17.5 billion in 2020/21 and employed around 48,800 people.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	17.5	17.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	2020/21	2020/21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	employed	employ	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	around	around	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	48,800	48,800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the UK space industry |  |  |  |  | £ 17.5 billion in 2020/21 *obl*; worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **employ** | past | the UK space industry *not said here* | 48,800 people |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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