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title: The rise of Protestantism led France to a civil war known as the Fre… — France · tree and pragmatics
description: The rise of Protestantism led France to a civil war known as the French Wars of Religion. Who acts: rise, Protestantism. A sentence of Wikipedia's «France» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# France, sentence 101

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From Wikipedia, [«France»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France), 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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The rise of Protestantism led France to a civil war known as the French Wars of Religion.

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**Who acts:** rise, Protestantism · **What happens:** lead, know, rise · **To what, where:** France, civil war

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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 (rise, Protestantism), 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:France:101
# text = The rise of Protestantism led France to a civil war known as the French Wars of Religion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Protestantism	Protestantism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Wars	War	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Religion	Religion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the rise of Protestantism | France |  | a civil war |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent france=Theme to war=Destination |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | a civil war *not said here* |  |  |  | as the French Wars of Religion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as war=Attribute |
| 3 | **rise** |  | Protestantism |  |  |  |  |  | nom rise «event 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, «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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