--- title: In the 2017 worldwide cost of living survey by the Economist Intelli… — Paris · tree and pragmatics description: In the 2017 worldwide cost of living survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, based on a survey made in September 2016, Paris ranked as the seventh most expensive city in the world, and the second most expensive in Europe. Who acts: Paris, Intelligence Unit. 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In the 2017 worldwide cost of living survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, based on a survey made in September 2016, Paris ranked as the seventh most expensive city in the world, and the second most expensive in Europe. **Who acts:** Paris, Intelligence Unit · **What happens:** base, make, rank, cost, survey · **To what, where:** 2017 worldwide cost, survey, 2016, living survey 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 (Paris, Intelligence Unit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:304 # text = In the 2017 worldwide cost of living survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, based on a survey made in September 2016, Paris ranked as the seventh most expensive city in the world, and the second most expensive in Europe. 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 2017 2017 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 4 worldwide worldwide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 survey survey NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 Economist Economist PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Intelligence Intelligence PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Unit Unit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 survey survey NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 2016 2016 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 24 Paris Paris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 ranked rank VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 seventh seventh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 30 advmod _ _ 30 expensive expensive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 40 nsubj _ _ 39 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 40 advmod _ _ 40 expensive expensive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **base** | participle | | the 2017 worldwide cost of living survey by the Intelligence Unit *not said here* | | a survey | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on survey=Source | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a survey *not said here* | | 2016 September | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **rank** | past | Paris | | | the 2017 worldwide cost of living survey by the Intelligence Unit | | as the seventh expensive city in the world | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as city=Attribute | | 4 | **cost** | | | living survey by the Intelligence Unit | | | | | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **survey** | | the Intelligence Unit | | | | | | nom survey «act transitive»: by=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 303](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Paris/303/) - next →: [sentence 305](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Paris/305/) - ↑ back to [Paris](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Paris/)