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title: The Garonne meets the Dordogne just after Bordeaux, forming the Giro… — France · tree and pragmatics
description: The Garonne meets the Dordogne just after Bordeaux, forming the Gironde estuary, the largest estuary in Western Europe which after approximately 100 km empties into the Atlantic Ocean. Who acts: Garonne. A sentence of Wikipedia's «France» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# France, sentence 231

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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 Garonne meets the Dordogne just after Bordeaux, forming the Gironde estuary, the largest estuary in Western Europe which after approximately 100 km empties into the Atlantic Ocean.

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**Who acts:** Garonne · **What happens:** meet, form, empty · **To what, where:** Dordogne, Gironde estuary, largest estuary, Atlantic Ocean

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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 (Garonne), 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:231
# text = The Garonne meets the Dordogne just after Bordeaux, forming the Gironde estuary, the largest estuary in Western Europe which after approximately 100 km empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Garonne	Garonne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Dordogne	Dordogne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Bordeaux	Bordeaux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Gironde	Gironde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	estuary	estuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	estuary	estuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Western	Western	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
26	empties	empty	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | the Garonne | the Dordogne |  |  | after Bordeaux |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dordogne=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **form** | gerund | the Garonne *not said here* | the Gironde estuary |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location estuary=Theme |
| 3 | **empty** | present |  | the largest estuary in Western Europe |  | the Atlantic Ocean | after 100 km |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme into ocean=Destination |

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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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