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title: Alongside their French, Russian and (after 1917) American counterpar… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: Alongside their French, Russian and (after 1917) American counterparts, British armed forces were engaged across much of the British Empire and in several regions of Europe, particularly on the Western Front. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United Kingdom, sentence 91

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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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Alongside their French, Russian and (after 1917) American counterparts, British armed forces were engaged across much of the British Empire and in several regions of Europe, particularly on the Western Front.

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**What happens:** engage · **To what, where:** American counterparts, much British Empire

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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: 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:91
# text = Alongside their French, Russian and (after 1917) American counterparts, British armed forces were engaged across much of the British Empire and in several regions of Europe, particularly on the Western Front.
1	Alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	counterparts	counterpart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	across	across	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Front	Front	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** | past · passive |  | American counterparts |  | the much British Empire and several regions of Europe and the Western Front | after 1917 | British armed forces *nsubj:pass* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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