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title: It re-established the French language, Catholic faith, and French ci… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: It re-established the French language, Catholic faith, and French civil law there, staving off the growth of an independence movement in contrast to the Thirteen Colonies. Who acts: Act, independence movement. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canada, sentence 67

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From Wikipedia, [«Canada»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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It re-established the French language, Catholic faith, and French civil law there, staving off the growth of an independence movement in contrast to the Thirteen Colonies.

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**Who acts:** Act, independence movement · **What happens:** re-establish, stave off, grow · **To what, where:** French language, growth

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canada». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Act, independence movement), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Canada:67
# text = It re-established the French language, Catholic faith, and French civil law there, staving off the growth of an independence movement in contrast to the Thirteen Colonies.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	re-established	re-establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	staving	stave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	Colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **re-establish** | past | Act | the French language and Catholic faith |  |  |  | French civil law *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stave off** | gerund | Act *not said here* | the growth of a independence movement in contrast |  |  |  | to the Thirteen Colonies | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** |  | a independence movement in contrast |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Canada», 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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