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title: It is a megadiverse country, with the world's fourth-largest land ar… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a megadiverse country, with the world's fourth-largest land area and third-largest population, exceeding 341 million. Who acts: sovereignty. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 4

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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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It is a megadiverse country, with the world's fourth-largest land area and third-largest population, exceeding 341 million.

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**Who acts:** sovereignty · **What happens:** be, exceed · **To what, where:** megadiverse country, 341 million

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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 (sovereignty), 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:4
# text = It is a megadiverse country, with the world's fourth-largest land area and third-largest population, exceeding 341 million.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	megadiverse	megadiverse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
23	341	341	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	compound	_	_
24	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | sovereignty | a megadiverse country and the world's fourth largest land area and third largest population |  |  |  | the world's fourth largest land area and third largest population *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **exceed** | gerund | sovereignty *not said here* | 341 million |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot million=Theme |

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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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