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title: Between 1853 and 1870 they rebuilt the city centre, created the wide… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: Between 1853 and 1870 they rebuilt the city centre, created the wide downtown boulevards and squares where the boulevards intersected, imposed standard facades along the boulevards, and required that the facades be built of the distinctive cream-grey "Paris stone". Who acts: plans, boulevards. A sen
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# Paris, sentence 212

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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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Between 1853 and 1870 they rebuilt the city centre, created the wide downtown boulevards and squares where the boulevards intersected, imposed standard facades along the boulevards, and required that the facades be built of the distinctive cream-grey "Paris stone".

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**Who acts:** plans, boulevards · **What happens:** rebuild, create, intersect, impose, require, build · **To what, where:** city centre, wide downtown boulevards, standard facades, facades

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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 (plans, boulevards), 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:212
# text = Between 1853 and 1870 they rebuilt the city centre, created the wide downtown boulevards and squares where the boulevards intersected, imposed standard facades along the boulevards, and required that the facades be built of the distinctive cream-grey "Paris stone".
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1853	1853	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	1870	1870	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	created	create	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	downtown	downtown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	boulevards	boulevard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	squares	square	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	boulevards	boulevard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	intersected	intersect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	imposed	impose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
24	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	facades	facade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	along	along	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	boulevards	boulevard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	facades	facade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
37	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	distinctive	distinctive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	nsubj	_	_
40	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rebuild** | past | plans *= plan* | the city centre |  |  |  | between 1853 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centre=Result |
| 2 | **create** | past | plans *= plan* *not said here* | the wide downtown boulevards and squares |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boulevard=Result |
| 3 | **intersect** | participle | the boulevards |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **impose** | participle | the boulevards *not said here* | standard facades |  |  |  | along the boulevards | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent facade=Theme |
| 5 | **require** | past | plans *= plan* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **build** | infinitive · passive |  | the facades |  |  |  | grey Paris stone *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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