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title: From the 16th to the 19th century, France was responsible for about… — France · tree and pragmatics
description: From the 16th to the 19th century, France was responsible for about 10% of the transatlantic slave trade. Who acts: France. A sentence of Wikipedia's «France» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# France, sentence 111

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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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From the 16th to the 19th century, France was responsible for about 10% of the transatlantic slave trade.

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**Who acts:** France · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 16th

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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 (France), 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:111
# text = From the 16th to the 19th century, France was responsible for about 10% of the transatlantic slave trade.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	16th	16th	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	transatlantic	transatlantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | France |  |  | the 16th | century | responsible *property* | tree rules |

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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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