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title: Colonial American authors were influenced by John Locke and other En… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: Colonial American authors were influenced by John Locke and other Enlightenment philosophers. Who acts: John. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 478

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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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Colonial American authors were influenced by John Locke and other Enlightenment philosophers.

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** influence · **To what, where:** Colonial American authors

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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 (John), 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:478
# text = Colonial American authors were influenced by John Locke and other Enlightenment philosophers.
1	Colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	authors	author	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
8	Locke	Locke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Enlightenment	enlightenment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **influence** | past · passive | John and other Enlightenment philosophers | Colonial American authors |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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