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title: West Francia approximated the area occupied by modern France and was… — France · tree and pragmatics
description: West Francia approximated the area occupied by modern France and was its precursor. Who acts: West. A sentence of Wikipedia's «France» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# France, sentence 75

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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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West Francia approximated the area occupied by modern France and was its precursor.

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**Who acts:** West · **What happens:** approximate, occupy, be · **To what, where:** area, precursor

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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 (West), 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:75
# text = West Francia approximated the area occupied by modern France and was its precursor.
1	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Francia	Francia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	approximated	approximate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	precursor	precursor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approximate** | past | West | the area |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent area=Value |
| 2 | **occupy** | participle |  | the area *not said here* |  |  |  | by modern France | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | West *not said here* | Empire's precursor |  |  |  | Empire *nmod:poss* | 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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