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title: Greater Paris, comprising Paris and its three surrounding department… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: Greater Paris, comprising Paris and its three surrounding departments, received a record 38 million visitors in 2019, measured by hotel arrivals. Who acts: Greater Paris. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 337

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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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Greater Paris, comprising Paris and its three surrounding departments, received a record 38 million visitors in 2019, measured by hotel arrivals.

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**Who acts:** Greater Paris · **What happens:** comprise, surround, receive, measure · **To what, where:** Paris, record, million visitors

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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 (Greater Paris), 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:337
# text = Greater Paris, comprising Paris and its three surrounding departments, received a record 38 million visitors in 2019, measured by hotel arrivals.
1	Greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	comprising	comprise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	departments	department	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	38	38	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	arrivals	arrival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comprise** | gerund | Greater Paris *not said here* | Paris and increase's three surrounding departments |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme paris=Pivot |
| 2 | **surround** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | past | Greater Paris | a record  million visitors in 2019 |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme |
| 4 | **measure** | participle |  | million visitors in 2019 *not said here* |  |  |  | by hotel arrivals | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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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