--- title: The United Kingdom is famous for "British Empiricism", a branch of t… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics description: The United Kingdom is famous for "British Empiricism", a branch of the philosophy that states that only knowledge verified by experience is valid, and 'Scottish Philosophy', sometimes referred to as the 'Scottish School of Common Sense'. Who acts: United Kingdom, philosophy, knowledge. 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The United Kingdom is famous for "British Empiricism", a branch of the philosophy that states that only knowledge verified by experience is valid, and 'Scottish Philosophy', sometimes referred to as the 'Scottish School of Common Sense'. **Who acts:** United Kingdom, philosophy, knowledge · **What happens:** be, state, verify, refer · **To what, where:** knowledge, Scottish Philosophy 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 (United Kingdom, philosophy, knowledge), 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:543 # text = The United Kingdom is famous for "British Empiricism", a branch of the philosophy that states that only knowledge verified by experience is valid, and 'Scottish Philosophy', sometimes referred to as the 'Scottish School of Common Sense'. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 United United PROPN NNP _ 3 flat _ _ 3 Kingdom Kingdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Empiricism Empiricism PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 philosophy philosophy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 states state VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 verified verify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 experience experience NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 valid valid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 Philosophy philosophy NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ', ', PART POS _ 31 dep _ _ 33 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 34 advmod _ _ 34 referred refer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 34 xcomp _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 School School PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 Common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 Sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the United Kingdom | | | | | for British Empiricism; famous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **state** *speech: other* | present | the philosophy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **verify** | participle | | knowledge *not said here* | | | | by experience | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | knowledge | | | | | valid *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **refer** | participle · passive | | Scottish Philosophy | | | | as the Scottish School of Common Sense; sometimes *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | 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 542](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/542/) - next →: [sentence 544](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/544/) - ↑ back to [United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/)