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title: In 1699, the French built a fort to protect Roseau. — Roseau · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1699, the French built a fort to protect Roseau. Who acts: French. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Roseau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Roseau, sentence 14

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From Wikipedia, [«Roseau»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseau), 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 1699, the French built a fort to protect Roseau.

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**Who acts:** French · **What happens:** build, protect · **To what, where:** fort, 1699, Roseau

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Roseau». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (French), 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:Roseau:14
# text = In 1699, the French built a fort to protect Roseau.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1699	1699	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	Roseau	Roseau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | the French | a fort |  | 1699 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fort=Product |
| 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | the French *not said here* |  | Roseau |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roseau=Beneficiary |

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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, «Roseau», 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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