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title: Clovis regained the southwest from the Visigoths and was baptised in… — France · tree and pragmatics
description: Clovis regained the southwest from the Visigoths and was baptised in 508. Who acts: Clovis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «France» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# France, sentence 63

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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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Clovis regained the southwest from the Visigoths and was baptised in 508.

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**Who acts:** Clovis · **What happens:** regain, baptise · **To what, where:** southwest, Visigoths, 508

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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 (Clovis), 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:63
# text = Clovis regained the southwest from the Visigoths and was baptised in 508.
1	Clovis	Clovis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	regained	regain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	southwest	southwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Visigoths	Visigoth	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	baptised	baptise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	508	508	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regain** | past | Clovis | the southwest |  | the Visigoths |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent southwest=Theme from visigoth=Source |
| 2 | **baptise** | past · passive | Clovis *not said here* |  |  | 508 |  |  | 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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