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title: The consequences of the war persuaded the government to expand the r… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: The consequences of the war persuaded the government to expand the right to vote in national and local elections to all adult men and most adult women with the Representation of the People Act 1918. Who acts: consequences. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United Kingdom» with its dependency tree and pragm
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# United Kingdom, sentence 94

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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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The consequences of the war persuaded the government to expand the right to vote in national and local elections to all adult men and most adult women with the Representation of the People Act 1918.

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**Who acts:** consequences · **What happens:** persuade, expand, vote, represent · **To what, where:** government, right, adult men, national elections, People Act

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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 (consequences), 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:94
# text = The consequences of the war persuaded the government to expand the right to vote in national and local elections to all adult men and most adult women with the Representation of the People Act 1918.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	consequences	consequence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	expand	expand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
22	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Representation	representation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	compound	_	_
34	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persuade** | past | the consequences of the war | the government |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Patient |
| 2 | **expand** | to-infinitive | the consequences of the war *not said here* | the right |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 3 | **vote** | to-infinitive | the consequences of the war *not said here* | the right *not said here* | all adult men and adult women | national elections |  | with the Representation of the People Act | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to man=Goal |
| 4 | **represent** |  |  | the People Act |  |  |  |  | nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=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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