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title: Paris is a major railway, motorway, and air-transport hub; in 2024 C… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: Paris is a major railway, motorway, and air-transport hub; in 2024 Charles de Gaulle Airport was the EU's busiest airport. Who acts: Paris, Charles. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 6

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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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Paris is a major railway, motorway, and air-transport hub; in 2024 Charles de Gaulle Airport was the EU's busiest airport.

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**Who acts:** Paris, Charles · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** major railway, busiest airport

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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 (Paris, Charles), 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:6
# text = Paris is a major railway, motorway, and air-transport hub; in 2024 Charles de Gaulle Airport was the EU's busiest airport.
1	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	motorway	motorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	hub	hub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	parataxis	_	_
17	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
18	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	Gaulle	Gaulle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
20	Airport	Airport	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	EU	EU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	busiest	busy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Paris | a major railway and motorway and transport hub |  |  |  | motorway *conj*; transport hub *conj*; 2024 *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Charles | the EU's busiest airport |  |  |  | the EU *nmod:poss* | 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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