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title: There are ten major ports, the largest of which is in Marseille, whi… — France · tree and pragmatics
description: There are ten major ports, the largest of which is in Marseille, which also is the largest bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Who acts: ten major ports, Marseille. A sentence of Wikipedia's «France» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# France, sentence 401

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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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There are ten major ports, the largest of which is in Marseille, which also is the largest bordering the Mediterranean Sea.

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**Who acts:** ten major ports, Marseille · **What happens:** be, border · **To what, where:** bordering Mediterranean Sea

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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 (ten major ports, Marseille), 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:401
# text = There are ten major ports, the largest of which is in Marseille, which also is the largest bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ports	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Marseille	Marseille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	compound	_	_
20	bordering	border	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | ten major ports  the largest |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of Marseille and the bordering Mediterranean Sea; which *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **border** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Marseille and the bordering Mediterranean Sea | the bordering Mediterranean Sea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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