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title: The FRG was a founding member of the European Economic Community, wh… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: The FRG was a founding member of the European Economic Community, while the GDR was a communist Eastern Bloc state and a founding member of the Warsaw Pact. Who acts: FRG, GDR. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 15

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From Wikipedia, [«Germany»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany), 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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The FRG was a founding member of the European Economic Community, while the GDR was a communist Eastern Bloc state and a founding member of the Warsaw Pact.

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**Who acts:** FRG, GDR · **What happens:** found, be · **To what, where:** founding member, communist Eastern Bloc state

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Germany». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FRG, GDR), 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:Germany:15
# text = The FRG was a founding member of the European Economic Community, while the GDR was a communist Eastern Bloc state and a founding member of the Warsaw Pact.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	FRG	FRG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	founding	found	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	GDR	GDR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Bloc	bloc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	founding	found	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Warsaw	Warsaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Pact	Pact	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the FRG | a founding member and a communist Eastern Bloc state and a founding member of the Warsaw Pact |  |  |  | of the European Economic Community | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the GDR | a communist Eastern Bloc state and a founding member of the Warsaw Pact |  |  |  | a founding member of the Warsaw Pact *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **found** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «Germany», 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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