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title: In 1961, the United States became the second country (after the Sovi… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1961, the United States became the second country (after the Soviet Union) to successfully launch a human into space. Who acts: United States. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 349

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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 1961, the United States became the second country (after the Soviet Union) to successfully launch a human into space.

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**Who acts:** United States · **What happens:** become, launch · **To what, where:** second country, 1961, human, space

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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), 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:349
# text = In 1961, the United States became the second country (after the Soviet Union) to successfully launch a human into space.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	launch	launch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	human	human	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the United States | the second country |  | 1961 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **launch** | to-infinitive | the United States *not said here* | a human |  |  |  | into space *result*; successfully *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer human=Theme into space=Result |

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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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