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title: According to the Bureau's U.S. Population Clock, on July 1, 2024, th… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the Bureau's U.S. Population Clock, on July 1, 2024, the U.S. population had a net gain of one person every 16 seconds, or about 5400 people per day. Who acts: U.S. population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 388

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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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According to the Bureau's U.S. Population Clock, on July 1, 2024, the U.S. population had a net gain of one person every 16 seconds, or about 5400 people per day.

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**Who acts:** U.S. population · **What happens:** accord, have · **To what, where:** net gain, 1

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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. population), 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:388
# text = According to the Bureau's U.S. Population Clock, on July 1, 2024, the U.S. population had a net gain of one person every 16 seconds, or about 5400 people per day.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	Bureau	Bureau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Population	Population	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Clock	Clock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	gain	gain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
27	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	5400	5400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	parataxis	_	_
34	per	per	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | the U.S. population | a net gain of one person |  | 1  July | second | accord Bureau's Population Clock; 5400 people per day *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gain=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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