France, sentence 166
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.
During World War I, France played a decisive role in defeating the Central Powers as part of the Triple Entente, while participating in the majority of the war's major battles fought on the Western Front.
Who acts: France, participating, war · What happens: play, defeat, participate, fight, battle · To what, where: decisive role, Central Powers, Western Front
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 (France, participating, war), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 War | case |
| 2 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 War | compound |
| 3 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 played | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 War | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 War | punct |
| 6 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 played | nsubj |
| 7 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 role | det |
| 9 | decisive | decisive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 role | amod |
| 10 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 played | obj |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 defeating | mark |
| 12 | defeating | defeat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 played | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Powers | det |
| 14 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Powers | compound |
| 15 | Powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 defeating | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 part | case |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 defeating | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Entente | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Entente | det |
| 20 | Triple | Triple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Entente | compound |
| 21 | Entente | Entente | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 participating | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 participating | mark |
| 24 | participating | participate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 fought | csubj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 majority | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 majority | det |
| 27 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 participating | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 battles | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 war | det |
| 30 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 battles | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 war | case |
| 32 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 battles | amod |
| 33 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 majority | nmod |
| 34 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 played | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 Front | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Front | det |
| 37 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Front | amod |
| 38 | Front | Front | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 fought | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | France | a decisive role | during World War I | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme | |||
| 2 | defeat | gerund | France not said here | the Central Powers | as part of the Triple Entente | tree rules | |||
| 3 | participate | gerund | in the majority of the war's major battles | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in majority=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fight | past | participating | the Western Front | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | battle | the war | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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