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title: Changing sets of European coalitions declared wars on Napoleon's emp… — France · tree and pragmatics
description: Changing sets of European coalitions declared wars on Napoleon's empire. Who acts: Changing sets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «France» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# France, sentence 143

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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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Changing sets of European coalitions declared wars on Napoleon's empire.

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**Who acts:** Changing sets · **What happens:** change, declare · **To what, where:** wars, empire

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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 (Changing sets), 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:143
# text = Changing sets of European coalitions declared wars on Napoleon's empire.
1	Changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	sets	set	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	coalitions	coalition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Changing sets of European coalitions | wars |  | Napoleon's empire |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |

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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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