France, sentence 17

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.

France reached its political and military zenith in the early 19th century under Napoleon Bonaparte, subjugating much of continental Europe and establishing the First French Empire.

Who acts: France · What happens: reach, subjugate, establish · To what, where: political zenith, much, French Empire

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), 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	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reached	nsubj
2	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 zenith	nmod:poss
4	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 zenith	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 military	cc
6	military	military	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 political	conj
7	zenith	zenith	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 century	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 century	det
10	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 century	amod
11	19th	19th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	12 century	amod
12	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obl
13	under	under	ADP	_	14 Napoleon	case
14	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 century	nmod
15	Bonaparte	Bonaparte	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Napoleon	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 subjugating	punct
17	subjugating	subjugate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 reached	advcl
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 subjugating	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Europe	case
20	continental	continental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Europe	amod
21	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 much	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 establishing	cc
23	establishing	establish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 subjugating	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Empire	det
25	First	First	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 French	amod
26	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Empire	compound
27	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 establishing	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	reach	past	France	nation's political zenith	century	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent zenith=Theme
2	subjugate	gerund	France not said here	much of continental Europe		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
3	establish	gerund	France not said here	the French Empire		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Patient

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «France», 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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🌲 France, sentence 17

The tree

Pragmatics

France, sentence 17