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title: According to the American Community Survey (2020), some 245.4 millio… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the American Community Survey (2020), some 245.4 million people in the U.S. age five and older spoke only English at home. Who acts: million people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 413

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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 American Community Survey (2020), some 245.4 million people in the U.S. age five and older spoke only English at home.

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**Who acts:** million people · **What happens:** accord, speak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (million people), 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:413
# text = According to the American Community Survey (2020), some 245.4 million people in the U.S. age five and older spoke only English at home.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Community	Community	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Survey	Survey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
12	245.4	245.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
13	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	U.S.	U.S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	_
22	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | some million people in the U.S. age |  |  |  |  | accord the American Community Survey; english *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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