Paris, sentence 136

From Wikipedia, «Paris», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Paris's last major annexation of outlying territories in 1860 gave it its modern form, and created the 20 clockwise-spiralling arrondissements (municipal boroughs).

Who acts: last major annexation, road · What happens: outlie, give, create, form · To what, where: territories, 1860, road, 20 spiralling arrondissements

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Paris». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last major annexation, road), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 annexation	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Paris	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 annexation	amod
4	major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 annexation	amod
5	annexation	annexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	nsubj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 outlying	mark
7	outlying	outlie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 annexation	acl
8	territories	territory	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 outlying	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1860	case
10	1860	1860	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 outlying	obl
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	obj
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 form	nmod:poss
14	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 form	amod
15	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 created	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 created	cc
18	created	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gave	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 arrondissements	det
20	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 arrondissements	nummod
21	clockwise	clockwise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 spiralling	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 clockwise	punct
23	spiralling	spiralling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arrondissements	compound
24	arrondissements	arrondissement	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 created	obj
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 boroughs	punct
26	municipal	municipal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 boroughs	amod
27	boroughs	borough	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 arrondissements	appos
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 boroughs	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	outlie	gerund	Paris's last major annexation not said here	territories	1860		tree rules
2	give	past	Paris's last major annexation	road		road's modern form obj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient form=Theme
3	create	past	Paris's last major annexation not said here	the 20 spiralling arrondissements			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrondissement=Result
4	form		road				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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Paris, sentence 136