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title: Clovis the Frank, the first king of the Merovingian dynasty, made th… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: Clovis the Frank, the first king of the Merovingian dynasty, made the city his capital from 508. Who acts: Clovis. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 32

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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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Clovis the Frank, the first king of the Merovingian dynasty, made the city his capital from 508.

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**Who acts:** Clovis · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** city, 508

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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 (Clovis), 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:32
# text = Clovis the Frank, the first king of the Merovingian dynasty, made the city his capital from 508.
1	Clovis	Clovis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Frank	Frank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Merovingian	Merovingian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	508	508	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Clovis | the city |  | 508 |  | Clovis's capital *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent city=Product from 508=Material |

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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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