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title: This ensures that the winning party or coalition always wins a major… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: This ensures that the winning party or coalition always wins a majority of the seats, even if they do not win an absolute majority of the vote. Who acts: This, winning party, seats. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 159

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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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This ensures that the winning party or coalition always wins a majority of the seats, even if they do not win an absolute majority of the vote.

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**Who acts:** This, winning party, seats · **What happens:** ensure, win, not win · **To what, where:** majority, absolute majority

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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 (This, winning party, seats), 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:159
# text = This ensures that the winning party or coalition always wins a majority of the seats, even if they do not win an absolute majority of the vote.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ensures	ensure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	compound	_	_
6	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	coalition	coalition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ensure** | present | This |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **win** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **win** | present | the winning party or coalition | a majority of the seats |  |  |  | always *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majority=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **win** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | seats *= seat* | a absolute majority of the vote |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majority=Eventuality |

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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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