Paris, sentence 212
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.
Between 1853 and 1870 they rebuilt the city centre, created the wide downtown boulevards and squares where the boulevards intersected, imposed standard facades along the boulevards, and required that the facades be built of the distinctive cream-grey "Paris stone".
Who acts: plans, boulevards · What happens: rebuild, create, intersect, impose, require, build · To what, where: city centre, wide downtown boulevards, standard facades, facades
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 (plans, boulevards), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 2 1853 | case |
| 2 | 1853 | 1853 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 rebuilt | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 1870 | cc |
| 4 | 1870 | 1870 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1853 | conj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rebuilt | nsubj |
| 6 | rebuilt | rebuild | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 centre | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 centre | compound |
| 9 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rebuilt | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 created | punct |
| 11 | created | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rebuilt | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boulevards | det |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boulevards | amod |
| 14 | downtown | downtown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boulevards | amod |
| 15 | boulevards | boulevard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 created | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 squares | cc |
| 17 | squares | square | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 boulevards | conj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 intersected | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boulevards | det |
| 20 | boulevards | boulevard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 intersected | nsubj |
| 21 | intersected | intersect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 squares | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 imposed | punct |
| 23 | imposed | impose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 intersected | conj |
| 24 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 facades | amod |
| 25 | facades | facade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 imposed | obj |
| 26 | along | along | ADP | _ | 28 boulevards | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 boulevards | det |
| 28 | boulevards | boulevard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 facades | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 required | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 required | cc |
| 31 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rebuilt | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 built | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 facades | det |
| 34 | facades | facade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 built | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 built | aux:pass |
| 36 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 required | advcl |
| 37 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 42 grey | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 grey | det |
| 39 | distinctive | distinctive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 grey | nsubj |
| 40 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 grey | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 cream | punct |
| 42 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 stone | amod |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 grey | punct |
| 44 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 stone | compound |
| 45 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 built | obl |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 stone | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rebuilt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rebuild | past | plans = plan | the city centre | between 1853 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centre=Result | |||
| 2 | create | past | plans = plan not said here | the wide downtown boulevards and squares | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boulevard=Result | ||||
| 3 | intersect | participle | the boulevards | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | impose | participle | the boulevards not said here | standard facades | along the boulevards | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent facade=Theme | |||
| 5 | require | past | plans = plan not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | build | infinitive · passive | the facades | grey Paris stone obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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