Paris, sentence 304
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.
In the 2017 worldwide cost of living survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, based on a survey made in September 2016, Paris ranked as the seventh most expensive city in the world, and the second most expensive in Europe.
Who acts: Paris, Intelligence Unit · What happens: base, make, rank, cost, survey · To what, where: 2017 worldwide cost, survey, 2016, living survey
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 (Paris, Intelligence Unit), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 cost | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cost | det |
| 3 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 cost | nummod |
| 4 | worldwide | worldwide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cost | amod |
| 5 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ranked | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 survey | case |
| 7 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 survey | amod |
| 8 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cost | nmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Unit | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Unit | det |
| 11 | Economist | Economist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Intelligence | compound |
| 12 | Intelligence | Intelligence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Unit | compound |
| 13 | Unit | Unit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 survey | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 based | punct |
| 15 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cost | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 survey | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 survey | det |
| 18 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 based | obl |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 survey | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 2016 | case |
| 21 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 2016 | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 made | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cost | punct |
| 24 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ranked | nsubj |
| 25 | ranked | rank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 city | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 city | det |
| 28 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 city | amod |
| 29 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 30 expensive | advmod |
| 30 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 city | amod |
| 31 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ranked | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 city | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 expensive | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 expensive | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 second | det |
| 38 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 40 expensive | nsubj |
| 39 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 40 expensive | advmod |
| 40 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ranked | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 Europe | case |
| 42 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 expensive | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 ranked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | participle | the 2017 worldwide cost of living survey by the Intelligence Unit not said here | a survey | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on survey=Source | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a survey not said here | 2016 September | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | rank | past | Paris | the 2017 worldwide cost of living survey by the Intelligence Unit | as the seventh expensive city in the world | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as city=Attribute | |||
| 4 | cost | living survey by the Intelligence Unit | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | survey | the Intelligence Unit | nom survey «act transitive»: by=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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