Paris, sentence 412
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.
Among the Trouvères of northern France, a group of Parisian aristocrats became known for their poetry and songs.
Who acts: Trouvères · What happens: become, know
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 (Trouvères), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 Trouvères | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Trouvères | det |
| 3 | Trouvères | Trouvères | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 became | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 France | case |
| 5 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 France | amod |
| 6 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Trouvères | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 group | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 group | det |
| 9 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 France | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 aristocrats | case |
| 11 | Parisian | Parisian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 aristocrats | amod |
| 12 | aristocrats | aristocrat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 group | nmod |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 became | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 poetry | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 poetry | nmod:poss |
| 17 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 known | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 songs | cc |
| 19 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 poetry | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Trouvères of northern France | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | participle | the Trouvères of northern France not said here | for aristocrats's poetry and songs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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