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title: Patrons danced the bourrée to the accompaniment of the cabrette (a b… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: Patrons danced the bourrée to the accompaniment of the cabrette (a bellows-blown bagpipe locally called a "musette") and the vielle à roue (hurdy-gurdy) in the cafés and bars of the city. Who acts: Patrons, bellows. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 424

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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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Patrons danced the bourrée to the accompaniment of the cabrette (a bellows-blown bagpipe locally called a "musette") and the vielle à roue (hurdy-gurdy) in the cafés and bars of the city.

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**Who acts:** Patrons, bellows · **What happens:** dance, blow, call, accompany · **To what, where:** bourrée, cafés, musette, cabrette · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Patrons, bellows), 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:424
# text = Patrons danced the bourrée to the accompaniment of the cabrette (a bellows-blown bagpipe locally called a "musette") and the vielle à roue (hurdy-gurdy) in the cafés and bars of the city.
1	Patrons	patron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bourrée	bourrée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	accompaniment	accompaniment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cabrette	cabrette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bellows	bellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	bagpipe	bagpipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	locally	locally	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	musette	musette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	vielle	vielle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
27	à	à	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	roue	roue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	hurdy	hurdy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	gurdy	gurdy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cafés	café	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past | Patrons | the bourrée |  | the cafés and bars of the city |  | to the accompaniment of the cabrette and the vielle à roue | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme bourrée=Destination to accompaniment=Trajectory |
| 2 | **blow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | participle | a bellows and blown bagpipe *not said here* | a musette |  |  |  | locally *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **accompany** |  |  | the cabrette |  |  |  |  | nom accompaniment «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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