France, sentence 231
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.
The Garonne meets the Dordogne just after Bordeaux, forming the Gironde estuary, the largest estuary in Western Europe which after approximately 100 km empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
Who acts: Garonne · What happens: meet, form, empty · To what, where: Dordogne, Gironde estuary, largest estuary, Atlantic Ocean
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 (Garonne), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Garonne | det |
| 2 | Garonne | Garonne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 meets | nsubj |
| 3 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Dordogne | det |
| 5 | Dordogne | Dordogne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 meets | obj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 Bordeaux | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 Bordeaux | case |
| 8 | Bordeaux | Bordeaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 meets | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 forming | punct |
| 10 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 meets | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 estuary | det |
| 12 | Gironde | Gironde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 estuary | compound |
| 13 | estuary | estuary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forming | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 estuary | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 estuary | det |
| 16 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 estuary | amod |
| 17 | estuary | estuary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 estuary | appos |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Europe | case |
| 19 | Western | Western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Europe | amod |
| 20 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 estuary | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 empties | obj |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 km | case |
| 23 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 24 100 | advmod |
| 24 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 km | nummod |
| 25 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 empties | obl |
| 26 | empties | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 estuary | acl:relcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 Ocean | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Ocean | det |
| 29 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Ocean | compound |
| 30 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 empties | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | the Garonne | the Dordogne | after Bordeaux | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dordogne=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | form | gerund | the Garonne not said here | the Gironde estuary | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location estuary=Theme | ||||
| 3 | empty | present | the largest estuary in Western Europe | the Atlantic Ocean | after 100 km | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme into ocean=Destination |
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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