Paris, sentence 543
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.
Charles de Gaulle Airport, located on the edge of the northern suburbs of Paris, opened to commercial traffic in 1974 and became the busiest Parisian airport in 1993.
What happens: locate, open, become · To what, where: edge, northern suburbs, commercial traffic, busiest Parisian airport, Charles
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: 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 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Charles | flat |
| 3 | Gaulle | Gaulle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Charles | flat |
| 4 | Airport | Airport | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Charles | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 located | punct |
| 6 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Charles | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 edge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 edge | det |
| 9 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 located | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 suburbs | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 suburbs | det |
| 12 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 suburbs | amod |
| 13 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 edge | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Paris | case |
| 15 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 suburbs | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 opened | punct |
| 17 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 suburbs | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 traffic | case |
| 19 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 traffic | amod |
| 20 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opened | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1974 | case |
| 22 | 1974 | 1974 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 traffic | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 became | cc |
| 24 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 located | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 airport | det |
| 26 | busiest | busy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 airport | amod |
| 27 | Parisian | Parisian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 airport | amod |
| 28 | airport | airport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 became | xcomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 1993 | case |
| 30 | 1993 | 1993 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 airport | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Charles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | participle | the edge of the northern suburbs of Paris | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | open | participle | the northern suburbs of Paris not said here | commercial traffic in 1974 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to traffic=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the busiest Parisian airport in 1993 | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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