France, sentence 237
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 is ranked 19th by carbon dioxide emissions due to the country's heavy investment in nuclear power following the 1973 oil crisis, which now accounts for 75 per cent of its electricity production and results in less pollution.
Who acts: dioxide emissions, nuclear power, 1973 oil crisis, country · What happens: rank, follow, account, invest, produce · To what, where: France, 1973 oil crisis, nuclear power
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 (dioxide emissions, nuclear power, 1973 oil crisis, country), 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 | 3 ranked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ranked | aux:pass |
| 3 | ranked | rank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 3 ranked | xcomp |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 emissions | case |
| 6 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dioxide | compound |
| 7 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 emissions | compound |
| 8 | emissions | emission | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ranked | obl |
| 9 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 15 investment | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 due | fixed |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 investment | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 country | case |
| 14 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 investment | amod |
| 15 | investment | investment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ranked | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 power | case |
| 17 | nuclear | nuclear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 power | amod |
| 18 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 investment | nmod |
| 19 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 power | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 crisis | det |
| 21 | 1973 | 1973 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 crisis | compound |
| 22 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crisis | compound |
| 23 | crisis | crisis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 following | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 accounts | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 accounts | nsubj |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 accounts | advmod |
| 27 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 crisis | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 cent | case |
| 29 | 75 | 75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 cent | nummod |
| 30 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cent | compound |
| 31 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 accounts | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 production | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 production | nmod:poss |
| 34 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 production | compound |
| 35 | production | production | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cent | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 results | cc |
| 37 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 production | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 pollution | case |
| 39 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 pollution | amod |
| 40 | pollution | pollution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 results | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ranked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rank | present · passive | dioxide emissions | France | due the country's heavy investment in nuclear power; 19th property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | nuclear power not said here | the 1973 oil crisis and accounts | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisis=Theme | ||||
| 3 | account | the 1973 oil crisis and accounts | now | for 75 per cent of country's electricity production and results in less pollution | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | invest | the country | nuclear power | nom investment «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place | |||||
| 5 | produce | country | nom production «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.
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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