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title: In England and Wales, water and sewerage services are provided by 10… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: In England and Wales, water and sewerage services are provided by 10 private regional water and sewerage companies and 13 mostly smaller private "water only" companies. Who acts: 10 private regional water. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Kingdom, sentence 407

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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 England and Wales, water and sewerage services are provided by 10 private regional water and sewerage companies and 13 mostly smaller private "water only" companies.

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**Who acts:** 10 private regional water · **What happens:** provide · **To what, where:** water services, England

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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 (10 private regional water), 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:407
# text = In England and Wales, water and sewerage services are provided by 10 private regional water and sewerage companies and 13 mostly smaller private "water only" companies.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sewerage	sewerage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
14	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	sewerage	sewerage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	_
22	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
24	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | present · passive | 10 private regional water and sewerage companies | water services |  | England and Wales |  | companies *obl*; smaller private water *obj* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Beneficiary water=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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