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title: Charles de Gaulle Airport, located on the edge of the northern subur… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: Charles de Gaulle Airport, located on the edge of the northern suburbs of Paris, opened to commercial traffic in 1974 and became the busiest Parisian airport in 1993. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 543

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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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Charles de Gaulle Airport, located on the edge of the northern suburbs of Paris, opened to commercial traffic in 1974 and became the busiest Parisian airport in 1993.

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**What happens:** locate, open, become · **To what, where:** edge, northern suburbs, commercial traffic, busiest Parisian airport, Charles

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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: 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:543
# text = Charles de Gaulle Airport, located on the edge of the northern suburbs of Paris, opened to commercial traffic in 1974 and became the busiest Parisian airport in 1993.
1	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Gaulle	Gaulle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Airport	Airport	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	busiest	busy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
27	Parisian	Parisian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1993	1993	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | participle |  |  |  | the edge of the northern suburbs of Paris |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | participle |  | the northern suburbs of Paris *not said here* | commercial traffic in 1974 |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to traffic=Recipient |
| 3 | **become** | past |  | the busiest Parisian airport in 1993 |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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