--- title: France grew from the lands around Paris held by its kings into a lar… — Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers… · tree and pragmatics description: France grew from the lands around Paris held by its kings into a large, united kingdom by absorbing great territories such as Burgundy and Brittany; Brittany joined through royal marriages and was formally united with France in 1532. Who acts: France, Brittany. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (France, Brittany), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.lesson:14 # text = France grew from the lands around Paris held by its kings into a large, united kingdom by absorbing great territories such as Burgundy and Brittany; Brittany joined through royal marriages and was formally united with France in 1532. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 around around ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Paris Paris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 united united ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 18 by by SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 absorbing absorb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 territories territory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 24 case _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 Burgundy Burgundy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 Brittany Brittany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 Brittany Brittany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 30 through through ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 marriages marriage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 formally formally ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 united unite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 1532 1532 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | France | | | the lands around Paris | | into a large united kingdom *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into kingdom=Result | | 2 | **hold** | participle | | the lands around Paris *not said here* | | | | by land's kings | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by king=Location | | 3 | **absorb** | gerund | France *not said here* | great territories | | | | such Burgundy and Brittany | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal territory=Theme | | 4 | **join** | past | Brittany | | | royal marriages | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **unite** | past · passive | Brittany *not said here* | | | 1532 | | with France; formally *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: with france=Co-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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.lesson:14`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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