Paris, sentence 70
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 1793, as the revolution turned increasingly radical, the king, queen, and mayor were beheaded by guillotine in the Reign of Terror, along with more than 16,000 others throughout France.
Who acts: revolution, guillotine · What happens: turn, behead · To what, where: king, 1793, mayor, Reign
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 (revolution, guillotine), 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 | _ | 2 1793 | case |
| 2 | 1793 | 1793 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 turned | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1793 | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 turned | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 revolution | det |
| 6 | revolution | revolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | increasingly | increasingly | ADV | _ | 9 radical | advmod |
| 9 | radical | radical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 turned | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 king | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 queen | punct |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beheaded | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beheaded | cc |
| 17 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beheaded | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 beheaded | aux:pass |
| 19 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 turned | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 guillotine | case |
| 21 | guillotine | guillotine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beheaded | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Reign | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Reign | det |
| 24 | Reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beheaded | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Terror | case |
| 26 | Terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Reign | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 others | punct |
| 28 | along | along | ADP | _ | 33 others | case |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 others | case |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 32 16,000 | advmod |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 more | fixed |
| 32 | 16,000 | 16,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 others | nummod |
| 33 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 beheaded | obl |
| 34 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 35 France | case |
| 35 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 others | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the revolution | the king and queen | 1793 | radical property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in 1793=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | behead | past · passive | guillotine | mayor | the Reign of Terror | along 16,000 others throughout France | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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