--- title: Amongst the many post-war composers, some of the most notable have m… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics description: Amongst the many post-war composers, some of the most notable have made their own personal choice of musical identity: Peter Maxwell Davies (Orkney), Harrison Birtwistle (mythological), and John Tavener (religious). Who acts: John. 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Amongst the many post-war composers, some of the most notable have made their own personal choice of musical identity: Peter Maxwell Davies (Orkney), Harrison Birtwistle (mythological), and John Tavener (religious). **Who acts:** John · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** some 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 (John), 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:577 # text = Amongst the many post-war composers, some of the most notable have made their own personal choice of musical identity: Peter Maxwell Davies (Orkney), Harrison Birtwistle (mythological), and John Tavener (religious). 1 Amongst amongst ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 post-war post-war ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 composers composer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 of of SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 11 advmod _ _ 11 notable notable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 acl _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 15 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 personal personal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 musical musical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 identity identity NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 23 Maxwell Maxwell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Davies Davies PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 xcomp _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Orkney orkney NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Harrison Harrison PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 30 Birtwistle Birtwistle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 mythological mythological ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl:agent _ _ 37 Tavener Tavener PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 flat _ _ 38 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 religious religious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · perfect · passive | John | some | | | | amongst the many post-war composers; composers's own personal choice of musical identity *obj*; Peter Maxwell Davies *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset subject=Beneficiary choice=Product | 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 576](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/576/) - next →: [sentence 578](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/578/) - ↑ back to [United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/)