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title: In the 20th century, the cafés of the Left Bank, especially Café de… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 20th century, the cafés of the Left Bank, especially Café de la Rotonde and Le Dôme Café in Montparnasse and Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots on Boulevard Saint Germain, all still in business, were important meeting places for painters, writers and philosophers. Who acts: cafés. A sentence o
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# Paris, sentence 458

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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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In the 20th century, the cafés of the Left Bank, especially Café de la Rotonde and Le Dôme Café in Montparnasse and Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots on Boulevard Saint Germain, all still in business, were important meeting places for painters, writers and philosophers.

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**Who acts:** cafés · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** important meeting places

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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 (cafés), 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:458
# text = In the 20th century, the cafés of the Left Bank, especially Café de la Rotonde and Le Dôme Café in Montparnasse and Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots on Boulevard Saint Germain, all still in business, were important meeting places for painters, writers and philosophers.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cafés	café	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Left	Left	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	Café	Café	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
16	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	flat:foreign	_	_
17	Rotonde	Rotonde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	Dôme	Dôme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Café	Café	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Montparnasse	Montparnasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Café	Café	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	Flore	Flore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Les	Les	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
30	Deux	Deux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	Magots	magot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	Boulevard	Boulevard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Germain	Germain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	all	all	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	still	still	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	45	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the cafés of the Left Bank and Café | important meeting places |  |  |  | for painters and writers and philosophers | tree rules |

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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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