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title: In 1920, a constitutional amendment granted nationwide women's suffr… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1920, a constitutional amendment granted nationwide women's suffrage. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 131

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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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In 1920, a constitutional amendment granted nationwide women's suffrage.

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**What happens:** grant · **To what, where:** constitutional amendment

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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: 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:131
# text = In 1920, a constitutional amendment granted nationwide women's suffrage.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1920	1920	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	amendment	amendment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	nationwide	nationwide	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	suffrage	suffrage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | participle |  | a constitutional amendment *not said here* |  |  |  | nationwide women's suffrage | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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