France, sentence 139
From Wikipedia, «France», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
About 16,000 people were executed in a Reign of Terror, which ended in July 1794.
Who acts: Terror · What happens: execute, end · To what, where: 16,000 people, Reign
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «France». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Terror), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 16,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 16,000 | 16,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 people | nummod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 executed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 executed | aux:pass |
| 5 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Reign | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Reign | det |
| 8 | Reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 executed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Terror | case |
| 10 | Terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Reign | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ended | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 ended | nsubj |
| 13 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Terror | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 July | case |
| 15 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ended | obl |
| 16 | 1794 | 1794 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 July | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 executed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | execute | past · passive | 16,000 people | a Reign of Terror | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | end | past | Terror | july | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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