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title: The eastern successor kingdom of East Francia stretched from the Rhi… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: The eastern successor kingdom of East Francia stretched from the Rhine in the west to the Elbe river in the east and from the North Sea to the Alps. Who acts: eastern successor kingdom. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 40

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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 eastern successor kingdom of East Francia stretched from the Rhine in the west to the Elbe river in the east and from the North Sea to the Alps.

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**Who acts:** eastern successor kingdom · **What happens:** stretch · **To what, where:** Elbe river, Rhine

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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 (eastern successor kingdom), 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:40
# text = The eastern successor kingdom of East Francia stretched from the Rhine in the west to the Elbe river in the east and from the North Sea to the Alps.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	successor	successor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Francia	Francia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Rhine	Rhine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Elbe	Elbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Alps	alp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past | the eastern successor kingdom of East |  | the Elbe river in the east and the North Sea | the Rhine |  | in the west; to the Alps | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in west=Topic to river=Recipient |

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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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