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title: The Frankfurt Book Fair is the most important in the world for inter… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: The Frankfurt Book Fair is the most important in the world for international deals and trading, with a tradition spanning over 500 years. Who acts: Frankfurt Book Fair, tradition. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 362

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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 Frankfurt Book Fair is the most important in the world for international deals and trading, with a tradition spanning over 500 years.

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**Who acts:** Frankfurt Book Fair, tradition · **What happens:** be, span · **To what, where:** world

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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 (Frankfurt Book Fair, tradition), 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:362
# text = The Frankfurt Book Fair is the most important in the world for international deals and trading, with a tradition spanning over 500 years.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Frankfurt	Frankfurt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	deals	deal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	trading	trading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	spanning	span	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Frankfurt Book Fair |  |  | the world |  | for international deals and trading and a tradition; important *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **span** | gerund | a tradition *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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