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title: Louis XV's weak rule, including the decadence of his court, discredi… — France · tree and pragmatics
description: Louis XV's weak rule, including the decadence of his court, discredited the monarchy, which in part paved the way for the French Revolution. Who acts: Louis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «France» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# France, sentence 124

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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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Louis XV's weak rule, including the decadence of his court, discredited the monarchy, which in part paved the way for the French Revolution.

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**Who acts:** Louis · **What happens:** discredit, pave, rule · **To what, where:** monarchy, part, weak rule

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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 (Louis), 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:124
# text = Louis XV's weak rule, including the decadence of his court, discredited the monarchy, which in part paved the way for the French Revolution.
1	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	XV	XV	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	including	including	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	decadence	decadence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	discredited	discredit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	monarchy	monarchy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	paved	pave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discredit** | participle |  | the monarchy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pave** | past |  | the monarchy |  | part |  | the way *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rule** |  | Louis |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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