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title: In the northwest corner of Arizona, carved by the Colorado River, is… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: In the northwest corner of Arizona, carved by the Colorado River, is the Grand Canyon, a steep-sided canyon and popular tourist destination known for its overwhelming visual size and intricate, colorful landscape. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 170

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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 the northwest corner of Arizona, carved by the Colorado River, is the Grand Canyon, a steep-sided canyon and popular tourist destination known for its overwhelming visual size and intricate, colorful landscape.

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**What happens:** carve, be, know · **To what, where:** northwest corner, Grand Canyon, popular tourist destination

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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:170
# text = In the northwest corner of Arizona, carved by the Colorado River, is the Grand Canyon, a steep-sided canyon and popular tourist destination known for its overwhelming visual size and intricate, colorful landscape.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	northwest	northwest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Grand	Grand	PROPN	NNP	_	17	compound	_	_
17	Canyon	Canyon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	sided	sided	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	canyon	canyon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	tourist	tourist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	destination	destination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	overwhelming	overwhelming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	visual	visual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	intricate	intricate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	colorful	colorful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | participle |  | the northwest corner of Arizona *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Colorado River | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the Grand Canyon and colorful landscape |  | the northwest corner of Arizona |  | a sided canyon and popular tourist destination *appos*; colorful landscape *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | popular tourist destination *not said here* |  |  |  | for destination's overwhelming visual size and intricate | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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