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title: Two of his most ambitious projects for the Region were the construct… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: Two of his most ambitious projects for the Region were the construction of five suburban "villes nouvelles" ("new cities") and the RER commuter train network. Who acts: Two, mésentente. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 240

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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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Two of his most ambitious projects for the Region were the construction of five suburban "villes nouvelles" ("new cities") and the RER commuter train network.

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**Who acts:** Two, mésentente · **What happens:** be, project · **To what, where:** construction

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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 (Two, mésentente), 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:240
# text = Two of his most ambitious projects for the Region were the construction of five suburban "villes nouvelles" ("new cities") and the RER commuter train network.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	ambitious	ambitious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	projects	project	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Region	Region	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	suburban	suburban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	villes	villes	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	appos	_	_
18	nouvelles	nouvelles	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	RER	RER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
29	commuter	commuter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Two of mésentente's ambitious projects for the Region | the construction and the RER train network |  |  |  | of five suburban; the RER train network *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **project** |  | mésentente |  |  |  |  | for the Region | nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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