--- title: A 2008 poll conducted jointly by the Institut national d'études démo… — France · tree and pragmatics description: A 2008 poll conducted jointly by the Institut national d'études démographiques (INSEE) and the French National Institute of Statistics estimated that the largest minority ancestry groups were Italian (5 million), followed by northwest African (3–6 million), Sub-Saharan African (2.5 million), Armenia --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/425/) [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/) / 425 # France, sentence 425 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. A 2008 poll conducted jointly by the Institut national d'études démographiques (INSEE) and the French National Institute of Statistics estimated that the largest minority ancestry groups were Italian (5 million), followed by northwest African (3–6 million), Sub-Saharan African (2.5 million), Armenian (500,000), and Turkish (200,000). **Who acts:** 2008 poll, largest minority ancestry groups · **What happens:** conduct, estimate, be, follow · **To what, where:** 2008 poll, Armenian 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 (2008 poll, largest minority ancestry groups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:425 # text = A 2008 poll conducted jointly by the Institut national d'études démographiques (INSEE) and the French National Institute of Statistics estimated that the largest minority ancestry groups were Italian (5 million), followed by northwest African (3–6 million), Sub-Saharan African (2.5 million), Armenian (500,000), and Turkish (200,000). 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 2008 2008 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 poll poll NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 4 conducted conduct VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 jointly jointly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 Institut Institut PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 9 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 d'études d'étude NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 démographiques démographique NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 INSEE INSEE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 National National ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Institute Institute PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Statistics statistic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 estimated estimate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 26 minority minority NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 ancestry ancestry NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 ccomp _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 compound _ _ 33 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 followed follow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 parataxis _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 northwest northwest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 obl _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 42 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 44 compound _ _ 44 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 47 Sub-Saharan Sub-Saharan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 48 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 49 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 2.5 2.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 51 compound _ _ 51 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 Armenian Armenian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 55 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 500,000 500,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 54 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 Turkish Turkish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ _ 61 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 200,000 200000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 60 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **conduct** | participle | | a 2008 poll *not said here* | | | | by the Institut démographiques; jointly *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by démographique=Destination | | 2 | **estimate** | past | a 2008 poll | Armenian | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | the largest minority ancestry groups | | | | | 5 million *obl*; italian *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **follow** | participle | | | | | | by northwest African | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by african=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 424](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/424/) - next →: [sentence 426](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/426/) - ↑ back to [France](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/)