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title: Asian Americans are the country's fourth-largest group, composing 5.… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: Asian Americans are the country's fourth-largest group, composing 5.9% of the United States population. Who acts: Asian Americans, fourth largest group. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 396

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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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Asian Americans are the country's fourth-largest group, composing 5.9% of the United States population.

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**Who acts:** Asian Americans, fourth largest group · **What happens:** be, compose · **To what, where:** fourth largest group

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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 (Asian Americans, fourth largest group), 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:396
# text = Asian Americans are the country's fourth-largest group, composing 5.9% of the United States population.
1	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Americans	American	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	composing	compose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	5.9	5.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	compound	_	_
19	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Asian Americans | the country's fourth largest group |  |  |  | the country *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **compose** | gerund | the country's fourth largest group *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=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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