Paris, sentence 159
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.
This ensures that the winning party or coalition always wins a majority of the seats, even if they do not win an absolute majority of the vote.
Who acts: This, winning party, seats · What happens: ensure, win, not win · To what, where: majority, absolute majority
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 (This, winning party, seats), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 ensures | nsubj |
| 2 | ensures | ensure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 wins | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 party | det |
| 5 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 party | compound |
| 6 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wins | nsubj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 coalition | cc |
| 8 | coalition | coalition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 party | conj |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 wins | advmod |
| 10 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ensures | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 majority | det |
| 12 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wins | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 seats | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 seats | det |
| 15 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 majority | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 win | punct |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 win | advmod |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 win | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 win | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 win | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 win | advmod |
| 22 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ensures | advcl |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 majority | det |
| 24 | absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 majority | amod |
| 25 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 win | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 vote | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 vote | det |
| 28 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 majority | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ensures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ensure | present | This | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | win | gerund | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | win | present | the winning party or coalition | a majority of the seats | always property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majority=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | not win a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | seats = seat | a absolute majority of the vote | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majority=Eventuality |
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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