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title: They counted 3,641 homeless persons in Paris, of whom twelve percent… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: They counted 3,641 homeless persons in Paris, of whom twelve percent were women. Who acts: persons. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 229

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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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They counted 3,641 homeless persons in Paris, of whom twelve percent were women.

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**Who acts:** persons · **What happens:** count, be · **To what, where:** 3,641 homeless persons, Paris, percent women

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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 (persons), 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:229
# text = They counted 3,641 homeless persons in Paris, of whom twelve percent were women.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	3,641	3,641	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	homeless	homeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	parataxis	_	_
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | past | persons *= person* | 3,641 homeless persons |  | Paris |  | whom *parataxis* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | percent women |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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