Paris, sentence 72
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.
A succession of revolutionary factions ruled Paris until 9 November 1799 (coup d'état du 18 brumaire), when Napoleon Bonaparte seized power as First Consul.
Who acts: succession, Napoleon · What happens: rule, seize · To what, where: Paris, power
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 (succession, Napoleon), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 succession | det |
| 2 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ruled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 factions | case |
| 4 | revolutionary | revolutionary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 factions | amod |
| 5 | factions | faction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 succession | nmod |
| 6 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ruled | obj |
| 8 | until | until | ADP | _ | 9 9 | case |
| 9 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 ruled | obl |
| 10 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 9 | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | 1799 | 1799 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 9 | flat |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 d'état | punct |
| 13 | coup | coup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 d'état | compound |
| 14 | d'état | d'état | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 1799 | appos |
| 15 | du | du | ADV | _ | 16 18 | advmod |
| 16 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 ruled | obl |
| 17 | brumaire | brumaire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 18 | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 18 | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seized | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 seized | advmod |
| 21 | Napoleon | Napoleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 seized | nsubj |
| 22 | Bonaparte | Bonaparte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Napoleon | flat |
| 23 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ruled | conj |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seized | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 Consul | case |
| 26 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 Consul | amod |
| 27 | Consul | Consul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 seized | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | a succession of revolutionary factions | Paris | until 9 November | 18 brumaire obl | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent paris=Result | ||
| 2 | seize | past | Napoleon | power | as First Consul | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |
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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