Paris, sentence 424
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.
Patrons danced the bourrée to the accompaniment of the cabrette (a bellows-blown bagpipe locally called a "musette") and the vielle à roue (hurdy-gurdy) in the cafés and bars of the city.
Who acts: Patrons, bellows · What happens: dance, blow, call, accompany · To what, where: bourrée, cafés, musette, cabrette · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Patrons, bellows), 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 | Patrons | patron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 danced | nsubj |
| 2 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bourrée | det |
| 4 | bourrée | bourrée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 danced | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 accompaniment | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 accompaniment | det |
| 7 | accompaniment | accompaniment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 danced | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cabrette | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cabrette | det |
| 10 | cabrette | cabrette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accompaniment | nmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 bellows | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bellows | det |
| 13 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cabrette | appos |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 bellows | punct |
| 15 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 bagpipe | amod |
| 16 | bagpipe | bagpipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bellows | conj |
| 17 | locally | locally | ADV | _ | 18 called | advmod |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bellows | acl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 musette | det |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 musette | punct |
| 21 | musette | musette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 musette | punct |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 bellows | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 vielle | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 vielle | det |
| 26 | vielle | vielle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accompaniment | conj |
| 27 | à | à | ADP | _ | 28 roue | case |
| 28 | roue | roue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 vielle | nmod |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 gurdy | punct |
| 30 | hurdy | hurdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 gurdy | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 hurdy | punct |
| 32 | gurdy | gurdy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 roue | appos |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 gurdy | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 cafés | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cafés | det |
| 36 | cafés | café | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 danced | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 bars | cc |
| 38 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 cafés | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 city | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 city | det |
| 41 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bars | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | Patrons | the bourrée | the cafés and bars of the city | to the accompaniment of the cabrette and the vielle à roue | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme bourrée=Destination to accompaniment=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | blow | participle | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | a bellows and blown bagpipe not said here | a musette | locally property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | accompany | the cabrette | nom accompaniment «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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