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title: France was one of the first countries to create an environment minis… — France · tree and pragmatics
description: France was one of the first countries to create an environment ministry, in 1971. Who acts: France. A sentence of Wikipedia's «France» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# France, sentence 236

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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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France was one of the first countries to create an environment ministry, in 1971.

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**Who acts:** France · **What happens:** be, create · **To what, where:** one, environment ministry, 1971

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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:236
# text = France was one of the first countries to create an environment ministry, in 1971.
1	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	create	create	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	environment	environment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ministry	ministry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1971	1971	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | France | one |  |  |  | of the first countries | tree rules |
| 2 | **create** | to-infinitive | France *not said here* | a environment ministry |  | 1971 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ministry=Result |

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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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