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title: German philosophy is historically significant: Gottfried Leibniz's c… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: German philosophy is historically significant: Gottfried Leibniz's contributions to rationalism; the enlightenment philosophy by Immanuel Kant; the establishment of classical German idealism by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling; Arthur Schop
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# Germany, sentence 364

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German philosophy is historically significant: Gottfried Leibniz's contributions to rationalism; the enlightenment philosophy by Immanuel Kant; the establishment of classical German idealism by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling; Arthur Schopenhauer's composition of metaphysical pessimism; the formulation of communist theory by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Friedrich Nietzsche's development of perspectivism; Gottlob Frege's contributions to the dawn of analytic philosophy; Martin Heidegger's works on Being; Oswald Spengler's historical philosophy; and the development of the Frankfurt School have all been very influential.

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**Who acts:** German philosophy, formulation, development, Gottfried, Friedrich, Gottlob · **What happens:** be, work, contribute, establish, develop · **To what, where:** historical philosophy, classical German idealism, perspectivism, Frankfurt School

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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 (German philosophy, formulation, development, Gottfried), 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:364
# text = German philosophy is historically significant: Gottfried Leibniz's contributions to rationalism; the enlightenment philosophy by Immanuel Kant; the establishment of classical German idealism by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling; Arthur Schopenhauer's composition of metaphysical pessimism; the formulation of communist theory by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Friedrich Nietzsche's development of perspectivism; Gottlob Frege's contributions to the dawn of analytic philosophy; Martin Heidegger's works on Being; Oswald Spengler's historical philosophy; and the development of the Frankfurt School have all been very influential.
1	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	historically	historically	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	Gottfried	Gottfried	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Leibniz	Leibniz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
10	contributions	contribution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rationalism	rationalism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	enlightenment	enlightenment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Immanuel	Immanuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Kant	Kant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	classical	classical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	idealism	idealism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Johann	Johann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	Gottlieb	Gottlieb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	Fichte	Fichte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Georg	Georg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
33	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	Friedrich	Friedrich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
35	Hegel	Hegel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	Friedrich	Friedrich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
39	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	Schelling	schelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	_
43	Schopenhauer	Schopenhauer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
45	composition	composition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	metaphysical	metaphysical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	pessimism	pessimism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	83	punct	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	formulation	formulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	83	nsubj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
55	by	by	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Karl	Karl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
57	Marx	Marx	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	flat	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	Friedrich	Friedrich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
60	Engels	Engels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
62	Friedrich	Friedrich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	nmod:poss	_	_
63	Nietzsche	Nietzsche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	's	's	PART	POS	_	62	case	_	_
65	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	perspectivism	perspectivism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
69	Gottlob	Gottlob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	72	nmod:poss	_	_
70	Frege	Frege	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	69	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	's	's	PART	POS	_	69	case	_	_
72	contributions	contribution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	_
73	to	to	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
74	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
75	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	nmod	_	_
76	of	of	ADP	IN	_	78	case	_	_
77	analytic	analytic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	78	amod	_	_
78	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	75	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	83	punct	_	_
80	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	81	compound	_	_
81	Heidegger	Heidegger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	83	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	's	's	PART	POS	_	81	case	_	_
83	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
84	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	85	mark	_	_
85	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	83	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	91	punct	_	_
87	Oswald	Oswald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	88	compound	_	_
88	Spengler	Spengler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	91	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
89	's	's	PART	POS	_	88	case	_	_
90	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	91	amod	_	_
91	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	83	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
92	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	104	punct	_	_
93	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	104	cc	_	_
94	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	95	det	_	_
95	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	104	nsubj	_	_
96	of	of	ADP	IN	_	99	case	_	_
97	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	99	det	_	_
98	Frankfurt	Frankfurt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	99	compound	_	_
99	School	School	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	95	nmod	_	_
100	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	104	aux	_	_
101	all	all	ADV	RB	_	104	advmod	_	_
102	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	104	cop	_	_
103	very	very	ADV	RB	_	104	advmod	_	_
104	influential	influential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
105	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | German philosophy |  |  |  |  | Gottfried's contributions to rationalism *obl*; the enlightenment philosophy by Immanuel and the establishment of classical German idealism by Johann  Georg and Friedrich Wilhelm and Arthur's composition of metaphysical pessimism *parataxis*; historically, significant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present | the formulation of communist theory by Karl and Friedrich  Friedrich's development of perspectivism and Gottlob's contributions to the dawn of analytic philosophy | Oswald Spengler's historical philosophy |  |  |  | Martin Heidegger *nsubj* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present · perfect | the development of the Frankfurt School |  |  |  |  | all, influential *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **contribute** |  | Gottfried |  |  |  |  | to rationalism | nom contribution «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
| 5 | **establish** |  |  | classical German idealism by Johann  Georg and Friedrich Wilhelm |  |  |  |  | nom establishment «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **develop** |  | Friedrich | perspectivism |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 7 | **contribute** |  | Gottlob |  |  |  | to the dawn of analytic philosophy |  | nom contribution «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
| 8 | **develop** |  |  | the Frankfurt School |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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