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title: An important cultural export during the Jazz Age, these writings wer… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: An important cultural export during the Jazz Age, these writings were a key influence on Négritude, a philosophy emerging in the 1930s among francophone writers of the African diaspora. Who acts: writings, philosophy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 493

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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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An important cultural export during the Jazz Age, these writings were a key influence on Négritude, a philosophy emerging in the 1930s among francophone writers of the African diaspora.

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**Who acts:** writings, philosophy · **What happens:** be, emerge · **To what, where:** key influence, Négritude, 1930s, important cultural export

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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 (writings, philosophy), 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:493
# text = An important cultural export during the Jazz Age, these writings were a key influence on Négritude, a philosophy emerging in the 1930s among francophone writers of the African diaspora.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	export	export	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	during	during	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Jazz	Jazz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	writings	writing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Négritude	négritude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
21	emerging	emerge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	1930s	1930	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
25	among	among	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	francophone	francophone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	diaspora	diaspora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this writings | a key influence |  | Négritude |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **emerge** | gerund | a philosophy *not said here* |  |  | the 1930s |  | among francophone writers of the African diaspora | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1930=Location |

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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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