Paris, sentence 458
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 20th century, the cafés of the Left Bank, especially Café de la Rotonde and Le Dôme Café in Montparnasse and Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots on Boulevard Saint Germain, all still in business, were important meeting places for painters, writers and philosophers.
Who acts: cafés · What happens: be · To what, where: important meeting places
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 (cafés), 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 | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 century | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cafés | det |
| 7 | cafés | café | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 places | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Bank | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bank | det |
| 10 | Left | Left | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bank | compound |
| 11 | Bank | Bank | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cafés | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Café | punct |
| 13 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 14 Café | advmod |
| 14 | Café | Café | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bank | conj |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 Café | flat:foreign |
| 16 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 Café | flat:foreign |
| 17 | Rotonde | Rotonde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Café | compound |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Le | cc |
| 19 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Rotonde | conj |
| 20 | Dôme | Dôme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Café | compound |
| 21 | Café | Café | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Magots | nmod:poss |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Montparnasse | case |
| 23 | Montparnasse | Montparnasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Café | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Café | cc |
| 25 | Café | Café | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Montparnasse | conj |
| 26 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Café | flat |
| 27 | Flore | Flore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Café | flat |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Les | cc |
| 29 | Les | Les | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Montparnasse | conj |
| 30 | Deux | Deux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Les | flat |
| 31 | Magots | magot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 la | appos |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 Germain | case |
| 33 | Boulevard | Boulevard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Saint | compound |
| 34 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Germain | compound |
| 35 | Germain | Germain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Magots | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 business | punct |
| 37 | all | all | ADV | _ | 40 business | advmod |
| 38 | still | still | ADV | _ | 40 business | advmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 business | case |
| 40 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cafés | appos |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 business | punct |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 places | cop |
| 43 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 places | amod |
| 44 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 places | compound |
| 45 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 century | parataxis |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 painters | case |
| 47 | painters | painter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 places | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 writers | punct |
| 49 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 painters | conj |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 philosophers | cc |
| 51 | philosophers | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 painters | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 places | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the cafés of the Left Bank and Café | important meeting places | for painters and writers and philosophers | tree rules |
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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