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title: In March 1938, just after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany,… — Liechtenstein · tree and pragmatics
description: In March 1938, just after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, Franz named as regent his 31-year-old grandnephew and heir-presumptive, Prince Franz Joseph. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liechtenstein» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liechtenstein, sentence 79

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From Wikipedia, [«Liechtenstein»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein), 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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In March 1938, just after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, Franz named as regent his 31-year-old grandnephew and heir-presumptive, Prince Franz Joseph.

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**What happens:** name · **To what, where:** annexation, Franz Joseph

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Liechtenstein». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Liechtenstein:79
# text = In March 1938, just after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, Franz named as regent his 31-year-old grandnephew and heir-presumptive, Prince Franz Joseph.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
3	1938	1938	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	annexation	annexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Austria	Austria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Nazi	Nazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Franz	Franz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
18	regent	regent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
20	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	grandnephew	grandnephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	presumptive	presumptive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Franz	Franz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle |  | the annexation of Austria by Nazi and Franz *not said here* |  |  |  | as Franz's regent old grandnephew | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as grandnephew=Attribute |

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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, «Liechtenstein», 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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