Paris, sentence 244
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.
Their poor construction quality and their haphazard insertion into existing urban growth contributed to their desertion by those able to move elsewhere, and their repopulation by those with more limited resources.
Who acts: poor construction quality, classes · What happens: exist, contribute, move, insert, desert · To what, where: urban growth, desertion, poor construction quality
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 (poor construction quality, classes), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 quality | nmod:poss |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quality | amod |
| 3 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quality | compound |
| 4 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 insertion | cc |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 insertion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | haphazard | haphazard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 insertion | compound |
| 8 | insertion | insertion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quality | conj |
| 9 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 10 existing | mark |
| 10 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 quality | acl |
| 11 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 growth | amod |
| 12 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 existing | obj |
| 13 | contributed | contribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 growth | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 desertion | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 desertion | nmod:poss |
| 16 | desertion | desertion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 contributed | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 those | case |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 contributed | obl |
| 19 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 those | amod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 move | mark |
| 21 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 able | xcomp |
| 22 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 21 move | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 repopulation | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 repopulation | cc |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 repopulation | nmod:poss |
| 26 | repopulation | repopulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quality | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 those | case |
| 28 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 repopulation | nmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 resources | case |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 resources | amod |
| 31 | limited | limited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 resources | amod |
| 32 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 those | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quality | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | gerund | classes's poor construction quality and classes's haphazard insertion and classes's repopulation by those with more limited resources not said here | urban growth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contribute | participle | urban growth not said here | classes's desertion | by urban growth | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to desertion=Recipient | |||
| 3 | move | to-infinitive | elsewhere property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | insert | classes = class | nom insertion «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | desert | classes = class | nom desertion «act 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Paris», 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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