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title: Long-term net migration (the number of people immigrating minus the… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: Long-term net migration (the number of people immigrating minus the number emigrating) reached a record of 860,000 in 2023, with immigration at 1.326 million and emigration at 466,000. Who acts: people, term net migration. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragm
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# United Kingdom, sentence 488

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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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Long-term net migration (the number of people immigrating minus the number emigrating) reached a record of 860,000 in 2023, with immigration at 1.326 million and emigration at 466,000.

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**Who acts:** people, term net migration · **What happens:** immigrate, emigrate, reach · **To what, where:** record, 2023

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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 (people, term net migration), 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:488
# text = Long-term net migration (the number of people immigrating minus the number emigrating) reached a record of 860,000 in 2023, with immigration at 1.326 million and emigration at 466,000.
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	immigrating	immigrate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	minus	minus	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	emigrating	emigrate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	860,000	860,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	immigration	immigration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	1.326	1.326	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	emigration	emigration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	466,000	466,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **immigrate** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | minus the number | tree rules |
| 2 | **emigrate** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | term net migration and the number of people | a record of 860,000 |  | 2023 |  | with immigration at 1.326 million and emigration; at 466,000 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent record=Theme at 466,000=Asset |

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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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