--- title: Daniel Owen is credited as the first Welsh-language novelist, publis… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics description: Daniel Owen is credited as the first Welsh-language novelist, publishing Rhys Lewis in 1885. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/537/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/) / 537 # United Kingdom, sentence 537 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. Daniel Owen is credited as the first Welsh-language novelist, publishing Rhys Lewis in 1885. **What happens:** credit, publish · **To what, where:** Daniel, Rhys Lewis, 1885 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:537 # text = Daniel Owen is credited as the first Welsh-language novelist, publishing Rhys Lewis in 1885. 1 Daniel Daniel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Owen Owen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 credited credit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 8 Welsh Welsh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 novelist novelist NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 publishing publish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 14 Rhys Rhys PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Lewis Lewis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 1885 1885 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **credit** | present · passive | | Daniel | | | | as the first language novelist | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **publish** | gerund | | Rhys Lewis | | 1885 | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lewis=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 536](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/536/) - next →: [sentence 538](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/538/) - ↑ back to [United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/)