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title: As of April 2020 there are around 151,000 users of British Sign Lang… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: As of April 2020 there are around 151,000 users of British Sign Language (BSL), a sign language used by deaf people, in the UK. Who acts: 151,000 users. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Kingdom, sentence 459

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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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As of April 2020 there are around 151,000 users of British Sign Language (BSL), a sign language used by deaf people, in the UK.

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**Who acts:** 151,000 users · **What happens:** be around, use · **To what, where:** sign language, UK

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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 (151,000 users), 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:459
# text = As of April 2020 there are around 151,000 users of British Sign Language (BSL), a sign language used by deaf people, in the UK.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	151,000	151,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	users	user	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Sign	Sign	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Language	Language	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	BSL	BSL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
21	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be around** | present | 151,000 users of British Sign Language |  |  | there | april |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | a sign language *not said here* |  | the UK |  | by deaf people | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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