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title: The U.S. president is the head of state, commander-in-chief of the m… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: The U.S. president is the head of state, commander-in-chief of the military, and chief executive of the federal government. Who acts: U.S. president. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 225

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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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The U.S. president is the head of state, commander-in-chief of the military, and chief executive of the federal government.

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**Who acts:** U.S. president · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** head

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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 (U.S. president), 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:225
# text = The U.S. president is the head of state, commander-in-chief of the military, and chief executive of the federal government.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the U.S. president | the head and chief  commander of the military |  |  |  | of state; chief  commander of the military *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the U.S. president *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the federal government | tree rules |

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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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