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title: Although the United States has reached a post-industrial level of ec… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: Although the United States has reached a post-industrial level of economic development and is often described as having a service economy, it remains a major industrial power; in 2024, the U.S. manufacturing sector was the world's second-largest by value output after China's. Who acts: United States
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# United States, sentence 315

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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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Although the United States has reached a post-industrial level of economic development and is often described as having a service economy, it remains a major industrial power; in 2024, the U.S. manufacturing sector was the world's second-largest by value output after China's.

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**Who acts:** United States, level, U.S. manufacturing sector · **What happens:** reach, describe, have, remain, be · **To what, where:** post-industrial level, service economy, major industrial power, 2024

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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 (United States, level, U.S. manufacturing sector), 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:315
# text = Although the United States has reached a post-industrial level of economic development and is often described as having a service economy, it remains a major industrial power; in 2024, the U.S. manufacturing sector was the world's second-largest by value output after China's.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	post-industrial	post-industrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	industrial	industrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	manufacturing	manufacturing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	43	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	conj	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	output	output	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	after	after	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	's	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | present · perfect | the United States | a post-industrial level of economic development |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent level=Theme |
| 2 | **describe** | present · passive | the United States *not said here* |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the United States *not said here* | a service economy |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent economy=Patient |
| 4 | **remain** | present | level | a major industrial power |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme power=Attribute |
| 5 | **is** | past | the U.S. manufacturing sector |  |  | 2024 |  | by value output after China; the world *nmod:poss*; large *property* | 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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