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title: Long-distance intercity travel is provided primarily by airlines, bu… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: Long-distance intercity travel is provided primarily by airlines, but travel by rail is more common along the Northeast Corridor, where the only high-speed rail in the U.S. that meets international standards operates. Who acts: airlines, travel, only speed rail, rail. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Unit
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# United States, sentence 370

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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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Long-distance intercity travel is provided primarily by airlines, but travel by rail is more common along the Northeast Corridor, where the only high-speed rail in the U.S. that meets international standards operates.

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**Who acts:** airlines, travel, only speed rail, rail · **What happens:** provide, be, meet, operate, travel · **To what, where:** distance intercity travel, international standards

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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 (airlines, travel, only speed rail, rail), 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:370
# text = Long-distance intercity travel is provided primarily by airlines, but travel by rail is more common along the Northeast Corridor, where the only high-speed rail in the U.S. that meets international standards operates.
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	intercity	intercity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	airlines	airline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
19	along	along	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Northeast	Northeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Corridor	Corridor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	38	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
26	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
27	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
36	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	standards	standard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	operates	operate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | present · passive | airlines | distance intercity travel |  |  |  | primarily *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | travel by rail |  |  |  |  | along the Northeast Corridor; common *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | present | the only speed rail in the U.S. | international standards |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **operate** | present | the only speed rail in the U.S. |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **travel** |  | rail |  |  |  |  |  | nom travel «act intransitive»: by=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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