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title: Welsh literature includes Britain's oldest known poem, Y Gododdin, m… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: Welsh literature includes Britain's oldest known poem, Y Gododdin, most likely composed in the late 6th century. Who acts: Welsh literature. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Kingdom, sentence 532

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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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Welsh literature includes Britain's oldest known poem, Y Gododdin, most likely composed in the late 6th century.

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**Who acts:** Welsh literature · **What happens:** include, know, compose · **To what, where:** oldest known poem

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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 (Welsh literature), 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:532
# text = Welsh literature includes Britain's oldest known poem, Y Gododdin, most likely composed in the late 6th century.
1	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Y	Y	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	Gododdin	Gododdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	6th	6th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | present | Welsh literature | Britain's oldest known poem |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **compose** | participle |  | Britain's oldest known poem *not said here* |  |  | century | likely *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «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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