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title: According to a 2015 study by Crédit Suisse, the French Armed Forces… — France · tree and pragmatics
description: According to a 2015 study by Crédit Suisse, the French Armed Forces ranked as the world's sixth-most powerful military and the second most powerful in Europe. Who acts: Crédit. A sentence of Wikipedia's «France» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# France, sentence 301

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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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According to a 2015 study by Crédit Suisse, the French Armed Forces ranked as the world's sixth-most powerful military and the second most powerful in Europe.

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**Who acts:** Crédit · **What happens:** accord, rank, study · **To what, where:** French Armed Forces

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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 (Crédit), 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:301
# text = According to a 2015 study by Crédit Suisse, the French Armed Forces ranked as the world's sixth-most powerful military and the second most powerful in Europe.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Crédit	Crédit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Suisse	Suisse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
14	ranked	rank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
28	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rank** | participle |  | the French Armed Forces *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **study** |  | Crédit |  |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: by=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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