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title: One of its foremost non-legislative functions is the power to invest… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: One of its foremost non-legislative functions is the power to investigate and oversee the executive branch. Who acts: One. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 221

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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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One of its foremost non-legislative functions is the power to investigate and oversee the executive branch.

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** be, investigate, oversee · **To what, where:** power, executive branch

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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 (One), 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:221
# text = One of its foremost non-legislative functions is the power to investigate and oversee the executive branch.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	foremost	foremost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	non-legislative	non-legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	functions	function	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	investigate	investigate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	oversee	oversee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | One of impeachment's foremost non-legislative functions | the power |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **investigate** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **oversee** | infinitive |  | the executive branch |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent branch=Eventuality |

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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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