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title: The company paid the city government 7.3 million euros in 2016. — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: The company paid the city government 7.3 million euros in 2016. Who acts: company. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 346

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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 company paid the city government 7.3 million euros in 2016.

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**Who acts:** company · **What happens:** pay · **To what, where:** city government, 2016

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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 (company), 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:346
# text = The company paid the city government 7.3 million euros in 2016.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	7.3	7.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	euros	euro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | the company | the city government |  | 2016 |  | million euros *obj* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent government=Recipient euro=Asset |

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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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