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title: Americans tend to greatly value socioeconomic achievement, but being… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: Americans tend to greatly value socioeconomic achievement, but being ordinary or average is promoted by some as a noble condition as well. Who acts: Americans, some. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 476

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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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Americans tend to greatly value socioeconomic achievement, but being ordinary or average is promoted by some as a noble condition as well.

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**Who acts:** Americans, some · **What happens:** tend, value, be, promote · **To what, where:** socioeconomic achievement

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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 (Americans, some), 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:476
# text = Americans tend to greatly value socioeconomic achievement, but being ordinary or average is promoted by some as a noble condition as well.
1	Americans	American	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	value	value	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	socioeconomic	socioeconomic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	achievement	achievement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	csubj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	promoted	promote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	obl:agent	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	15	advmod	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | present | Americans |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **value** | to-infinitive | Americans *not said here* | socioeconomic achievement |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer achievement=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | ordinary *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **promote** | present · passive | some |  |  |  |  | as a noble condition | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: 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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