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title: In August 2026, the total U.S. federal government debt passed $40 tr… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: In August 2026, the total U.S. federal government debt passed $40 trillion, having more than doubled in the previous decade. Who acts: U.S., total federal government debt. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 310

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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 August 2026, the total U.S. federal government debt passed $40 trillion, having more than doubled in the previous decade.

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**Who acts:** U.S., total federal government debt · **What happens:** debt, pass, have, double · **To what, where:** 2026

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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., total federal government debt), 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:310
# text = In August 2026, the total U.S. federal government debt passed $40 trillion, having more than doubled in the previous decade.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	$	$	SYM	$	_	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	trillion	trillion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	19	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	doubled	double	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	decade	decade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **debt** |  | U.S. |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | past | the total federal government debt |  |  | 2026  August |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent $=Theme in 2026=Destination |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the total federal government debt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **double** | participle | the total federal government debt *not said here* |  |  |  | decade |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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