---
title: France reached its political and military zenith in the early 19th c… — France · tree and pragmatics
description: France reached its political and military zenith in the early 19th century under Napoleon Bonaparte, subjugating much of continental Europe and establishing the First French Empire. Who acts: France. A sentence of Wikipedia's «France» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/17/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [France](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/) / 17

# France, sentence 17

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
France reached its political and military zenith in the early 19th century under Napoleon Bonaparte, subjugating much of continental Europe and establishing the First French Empire.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** France · **What happens:** reach, subjugate, establish · **To what, where:** political zenith, much, French Empire

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:17
# text = France reached its political and military zenith in the early 19th century under Napoleon Bonaparte, subjugating much of continental Europe and establishing the First French Empire.
1	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	zenith	zenith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Bonaparte	Bonaparte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	subjugating	subjugate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	establishing	establish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	First	First	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
26	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | France | nation's political zenith |  |  | century |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent zenith=Theme |
| 2 | **subjugate** | gerund | France *not said here* | much of continental Europe |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 3 | **establish** | gerund | France *not said here* | the French Empire |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/16/)
- next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/18/)
- ↑ back to [France](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/)