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title: Paris's last major annexation of outlying territories in 1860 gave i… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: Paris's last major annexation of outlying territories in 1860 gave it its modern form, and created the 20 clockwise-spiralling arrondissements (municipal boroughs). Who acts: last major annexation, road. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 136

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From Wikipedia, [«Paris»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Paris's last major annexation of outlying territories in 1860 gave it its modern form, and created the 20 clockwise-spiralling arrondissements (municipal boroughs).

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**Who acts:** last major annexation, road · **What happens:** outlie, give, create, form · **To what, where:** territories, 1860, road, 20 spiralling arrondissements

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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 (last major annexation, road), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Paris:136
# text = Paris's last major annexation of outlying territories in 1860 gave it its modern form, and created the 20 clockwise-spiralling arrondissements (municipal boroughs).
1	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	annexation	annexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	outlying	outlie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1860	1860	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	created	create	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
21	clockwise	clockwise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	spiralling	spiralling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	arrondissements	arrondissement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	boroughs	borough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outlie** | gerund | Paris's last major annexation *not said here* | territories |  | 1860 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | Paris's last major annexation | road |  |  |  | road's modern form *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient form=Theme |
| 3 | **create** | past | Paris's last major annexation *not said here* | the 20 spiralling arrondissements |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrondissement=Result |
| 4 | **form** |  | road |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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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