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title: The colonies' distance from Britain facilitated the entrenchment of… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: The colonies' distance from Britain facilitated the entrenchment of self-governance, and the First Great Awakening, a series of Christian revivals, fueled colonial interest in guaranteed religious liberty. Who acts: distance. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pra
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# United States, sentence 58

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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 colonies' distance from Britain facilitated the entrenchment of self-governance, and the First Great Awakening, a series of Christian revivals, fueled colonial interest in guaranteed religious liberty.

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**Who acts:** distance · **What happens:** facilitate, fuel, guarantee · **To what, where:** entrenchment, colonial interest, guaranteed religious liberty

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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 (distance), 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:58
# text = The colonies' distance from Britain facilitated the entrenchment of self-governance, and the First Great Awakening, a series of Christian revivals, fueled colonial interest in guaranteed religious liberty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	facilitated	facilitate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	entrenchment	entrenchment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
18	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Awakening	awakening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	revivals	revival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	fueled	fuel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
28	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	guaranteed	guarantee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
32	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **facilitate** | past | the colonies's distance from Britain | the entrenchment of self governance |  |  |  | the First Great Awakening and a series of Christian revivals *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fuel** | participle | the colonies's distance from Britain *not said here* | colonial interest |  | guaranteed religious liberty |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent interest=Destination |
| 3 | **guarantee** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |

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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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