Paris, sentence 261
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.
The population increased from 2,125,246 in 1999 to 2,240,621 in 2012, before declining again between 2012 and 2023.
Who acts: population · What happens: increase, decline · To what, where: 2,125,246
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 (population), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 population | det |
| 2 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increased | nsubj |
| 3 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 2,125,246 | case |
| 5 | 2,125,246 | 2,125,246 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 increased | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1999 | case |
| 7 | 1999 | 1999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 increased | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 2,240,621 | case |
| 9 | 2,240,621 | 2,240,621 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 1999 | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 2012 | case |
| 11 | 2012 | 2012 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 1999 | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 declining | punct |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 declining | mark |
| 14 | declining | decline | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 increased | advcl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 declining | advmod |
| 16 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 2012 | case |
| 17 | 2012 | 2012 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 declining | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 2023 | cc |
| 19 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 2012 | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past | the population | 2,125,246 | in 1999 to 2,240,621 in 2012 | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Patient from 2,125,246=Intial_State in 1999=Attribute | |||
| 2 | decline | gerund | the population not said here | again | between 2012 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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