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title: What's Class Got To Do With It, American Society in the Twenty-First… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: What's Class Got To Do With It, American Society in the Twenty-First Century". Who acts: Class, To. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 1235

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From Wikipedia, [«United States»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States), 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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What's Class Got To Do With It, American Society in the Twenty-First Century".

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**Who acts:** Class, To · **What happens:** be, do

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United States». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Class, To), 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_States:1235
# text = What's Class Got To Do With It, American Society in the Twenty-First Century".
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	Class	Class	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	To	To	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	With	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	American	American	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	Century	Century	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Class |  |  |  |  | What *obj*; get *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | To |  |  |  |  | with nation; American Society in the First Century *parataxis* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 States», 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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