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title: The population increased from 2,125,246 in 1999 to 2,240,621 in 2012… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: The population increased from 2,125,246 in 1999 to 2,240,621 in 2012, before declining again between 2012 and 2023. Who acts: population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 261

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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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The population increased from 2,125,246 in 1999 to 2,240,621 in 2012, before declining again between 2012 and 2023.

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**Who acts:** population · **What happens:** increase, decline · **To what, where:** 2,125,246

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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 (population), 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:261
# text = The population increased from 2,125,246 in 1999 to 2,240,621 in 2012, before declining again between 2012 and 2023.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2,125,246	2,125,246	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2,240,621	2,240,621	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	declining	decline	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | past | the population |  |  | 2,125,246 |  | in 1999 to 2,240,621 in 2012 | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient from 2,125,246=Intial\_State in 1999=Attribute |
| 2 | **decline** | gerund | the population *not said here* |  |  |  | again | between 2012 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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