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title: In 1793, as the revolution turned increasingly radical, the king, qu… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1793, as the revolution turned increasingly radical, the king, queen, and mayor were beheaded by guillotine in the Reign of Terror, along with more than 16,000 others throughout France. Who acts: revolution, guillotine. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 70

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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 1793, as the revolution turned increasingly radical, the king, queen, and mayor were beheaded by guillotine in the Reign of Terror, along with more than 16,000 others throughout France.

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**Who acts:** revolution, guillotine · **What happens:** turn, behead · **To what, where:** king, 1793, mayor, Reign

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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 (revolution, guillotine), 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:70
# text = In 1793, as the revolution turned increasingly radical, the king, queen, and mayor were beheaded by guillotine in the Reign of Terror, along with more than 16,000 others throughout France.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1793	1793	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	revolution	revolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	increasingly	increasingly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	radical	radical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	beheaded	behead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	guillotine	guillotine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	along	along	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	32	advmod	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	16,000	16,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
34	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the revolution | the king and queen |  | 1793 |  | radical *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in 1793=Trajectory |
| 2 | **behead** | past · passive | guillotine | mayor |  | the Reign of Terror |  | along 16,000 others throughout France | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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