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title: The major film studios of the United States are the primary source o… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: The major film studios of the United States are the primary source of the most commercially successful movies selling the most tickets in the world. Who acts: major film studios, successful movies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 567

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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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The major film studios of the United States are the primary source of the most commercially successful movies selling the most tickets in the world.

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**Who acts:** major film studios, successful movies · **What happens:** be, sell · **To what, where:** primary source, tickets, world

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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 (major film studios, successful movies), 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:567
# text = The major film studios of the United States are the primary source of the most commercially successful movies selling the most tickets in the world.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	studios	studio	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	commercially	commercially	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	movies	movie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
19	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	tickets	ticket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the major film studios of the United States | the primary source |  |  |  | of the successful movies | tree rules |
| 2 | **sell** | gerund | the successful movies *not said here* | the tickets |  | the world |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=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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