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title: Their poor construction quality and their haphazard insertion into e… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: Their poor construction quality and their haphazard insertion into existing urban growth contributed to their desertion by those able to move elsewhere, and their repopulation by those with more limited resources. Who acts: poor construction quality, classes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with i
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# Paris, sentence 244

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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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Their poor construction quality and their haphazard insertion into existing urban growth contributed to their desertion by those able to move elsewhere, and their repopulation by those with more limited resources.

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**Who acts:** poor construction quality, classes · **What happens:** exist, contribute, move, insert, desert · **To what, where:** urban growth, desertion, poor construction quality

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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 (poor construction quality, classes), 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:244
# text = Their poor construction quality and their haphazard insertion into existing urban growth contributed to their desertion by those able to move elsewhere, and their repopulation by those with more limited resources.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	haphazard	haphazard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	insertion	insertion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
11	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	contributed	contribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	desertion	desertion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	_
19	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	repopulation	repopulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	nmod	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
31	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | gerund | classes's poor construction quality and classes's haphazard insertion and classes's repopulation by those with more limited resources *not said here* | urban growth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **contribute** | participle |  | urban growth *not said here* | classes's desertion |  |  | by urban growth | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to desertion=Recipient |
| 3 | **move** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | elsewhere *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **insert** |  | classes *= class* |  |  |  |  |  | nom insertion «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **desert** |  | classes *= class* |  |  |  |  |  | nom desertion «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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