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title: The country ranks first in the world by nominal GDP, second when adj… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: The country ranks first in the world by nominal GDP, second when adjusted for purchasing power parities (PPP), and ninth by PPP-adjusted GDP per capita. Who acts: country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 309

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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 country ranks first in the world by nominal GDP, second when adjusted for purchasing power parities (PPP), and ninth by PPP-adjusted GDP per capita.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** rank, adjust, purchase · **To what, where:** world, power parities

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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 (country), 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:309
# text = The country ranks first in the world by nominal GDP, second when adjusted for purchasing power parities (PPP), and ninth by PPP-adjusted GDP per capita.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ranks	rank	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	nominal	nominal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	GDP	gdp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	adjusted	adjust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	purchasing	purchase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	parities	parity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	PPP	PPP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	PPP	PPP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	adjusted	adjust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	GDP	gdp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	per	per	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	capita	capita	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rank** | present | the country |  |  | the world |  | by nominal GDP; first *property* | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **adjust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | second *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **purchase** | gerund |  | power parities |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset parity=Theme |
| 4 | **adjust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: 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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