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title: Paris is one of the few world capitals that has rarely seen destruct… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: Paris is one of the few world capitals that has rarely seen destruction by catastrophe or war. Who acts: Paris, few world capitals. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 206

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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 is one of the few world capitals that has rarely seen destruction by catastrophe or war.

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**Who acts:** Paris, few world capitals · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** one, destruction

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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 (Paris, few world capitals), 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:206
# text = Paris is one of the few world capitals that has rarely seen destruction by catastrophe or war.
1	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Paris | one |  |  |  | of the few world capitals | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present · perfect | the few world capitals | destruction |  |  |  | by catastrophe or war; rarely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer destruction=Stimulus |

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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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