Paris, sentence 73
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.
The population of Paris had dropped by 100,000 during the Revolution, but after 1799 it surged with 160,000 new residents, reaching 660,000 by 1815.
Who acts: population · What happens: drop, surge, reach · To what, where: population, 660,000
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 (population), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 population | det |
| 2 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dropped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Paris | case |
| 4 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 population | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dropped | aux |
| 6 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 100,000 | case |
| 8 | 100,000 | 100000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 dropped | obl |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 11 Revolution | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Revolution | det |
| 11 | Revolution | Revolution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dropped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 surged | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 surged | cc |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 1799 | case |
| 15 | 1799 | 1799 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 surged | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 surged | nsubj |
| 17 | surged | surge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dropped | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 residents | case |
| 19 | 160,000 | 160,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 residents | nummod |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 residents | amod |
| 21 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 surged | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reaching | punct |
| 23 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 surged | advcl |
| 24 | 660,000 | 660,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 reaching | obj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 1815 | case |
| 26 | 1815 | 1815 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 660,000 | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past · perfect · passive | the population of Paris | during the Revolution | by 100,000 | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by 100000=Destination | |||
| 2 | surge | past | population | after 1799 | with 160,000 new residents | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | reach | gerund | population not said here | 660,000 | by 1815 | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 660,000=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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