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title: The southern territories remained under Prussian (German) rule until… — Kingdom of the Netherlands · tree and pragmatics
description: The southern territories remained under Prussian (German) rule until Napoleon's return from his first exile on Elba ("Hundred Days"). Who acts: Napoleon. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kingdom of the Netherlands» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kingdom of the Netherlands, sentence 8

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From Wikipedia, [«Kingdom of the Netherlands»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands), 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 southern territories remained under Prussian (German) rule until Napoleon's return from his first exile on Elba ("Hundred Days").

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**Who acts:** Napoleon · **What happens:** remain, return · **To what, where:** southern territories, Prussian German rule, first exile

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kingdom of the Netherlands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Napoleon), 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:Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands:8
# text = The southern territories remained under Prussian (German) rule until Napoleon's return from his first exile on Elba ("Hundred Days").
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	Prussian	prussian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	until	until	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Elba	Elba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	Days	Day	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | participle |  | the southern territories *not said here* |  | Prussian German rule | until Napoleon's return from Napoleon's first exile on Elba |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rule=Location |
| 3 | **return** |  | Napoleon |  |  | Napoleon's first exile on Elba |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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, «Kingdom of the Netherlands», 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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