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title: According to statistics released in 2015, 27 per cent of UK live bir… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: According to statistics released in 2015, 27 per cent of UK live births in 2014 were to mothers born outside the UK. Who acts: 27 per cent, births. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Kingdom, sentence 482

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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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According to statistics released in 2015, 27 per cent of UK live births in 2014 were to mothers born outside the UK.

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**Who acts:** 27 per cent, births · **What happens:** accord, release, live, be, bear · **To what, where:** statistics, 2015, mothers

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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 (27 per cent, births), 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:482
# text = According to statistics released in 2015, 27 per cent of UK live births in 2014 were to mothers born outside the UK.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	statistics	statistic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
4	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	births	birth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **release** | participle |  | statistics *not said here* |  | 2015 |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **live** | present | 27 per cent of UK |  |  |  |  | accord statistics | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | births in 2014 |  |  |  |  | to mothers | tree rules |
| 5 | **bear** | participle |  | mothers *not said here* |  |  |  | outside the UK | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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