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title: Building an American empire: the era of territorial and political ex… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: Building an American empire: the era of territorial and political expansion". A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 799

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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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Building an American empire: the era of territorial and political expansion".

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**What happens:** build · **To what, where:** American empire

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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: 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:799
# text = Building an American empire: the era of territorial and political expansion".
1	Building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	territorial	territorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | gerund |  | a American empire |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset empire=Product |

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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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