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title: The extensive Interstate Highway System that connects all major U.S.… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: The extensive Interstate Highway System that connects all major U.S. cities is funded mostly by the federal government but maintained by state departments of transportation. Who acts: extensive Interstate, federal government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pra
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# United States, sentence 363

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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 extensive Interstate Highway System that connects all major U.S. cities is funded mostly by the federal government but maintained by state departments of transportation.

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**Who acts:** extensive Interstate, federal government · **What happens:** connect, fund, maintain · **To what, where:** major U.S. cities, extensive Interstate

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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 (extensive Interstate, federal government), 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:363
# text = The extensive Interstate Highway System that connects all major U.S. cities is funded mostly by the federal government but maintained by state departments of transportation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Interstate	interstate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	Highway	Highway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	System	System	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	connects	connect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
9	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	funded	fund	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:agent	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	departments	department	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	transportation	transportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | present | the extensive Interstate | all major U.S. cities |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
| 2 | **fund** | present · passive | the federal government | the extensive Interstate |  |  |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **maintain** | participle | the federal government *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by state departments of transportation | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: 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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