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title: A succession of revolutionary factions ruled Paris until 9 November… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: A succession of revolutionary factions ruled Paris until 9 November 1799 (coup d'état du 18 brumaire), when Napoleon Bonaparte seized power as First Consul. Who acts: succession, Napoleon. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 72

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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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A succession of revolutionary factions ruled Paris until 9 November 1799 (coup d'état du 18 brumaire), when Napoleon Bonaparte seized power as First Consul.

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**Who acts:** succession, Napoleon · **What happens:** rule, seize · **To what, where:** Paris, power

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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 (succession, Napoleon), 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:72
# text = A succession of revolutionary factions ruled Paris until 9 November 1799 (coup d'état du 18 brumaire), when Napoleon Bonaparte seized power as First Consul.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	revolutionary	revolutionary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	factions	faction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
10	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	1799	1799	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	d'état	d'état	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	du	du	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
17	brumaire	brumaire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	Bonaparte	Bonaparte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	Consul	Consul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | a succession of revolutionary factions | Paris |  |  | until 9  November | 18  brumaire *obl* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent paris=Result |
| 2 | **seize** | past | Napoleon | power |  |  |  | as First Consul | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |

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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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