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title: The population of Paris had dropped by 100,000 during the Revolution… — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: The population of Paris had dropped by 100,000 during the Revolution, but after 1799 it surged with 160,000 new residents, reaching 660,000 by 1815. Who acts: population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 73

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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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The population of Paris had dropped by 100,000 during the Revolution, but after 1799 it surged with 160,000 new residents, reaching 660,000 by 1815.

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**Who acts:** population · **What happens:** drop, surge, reach · **To what, where:** population, 660,000

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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 (population), 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:73
# text = The population of Paris had dropped by 100,000 during the Revolution, but after 1799 it surged with 160,000 new residents, reaching 660,000 by 1815.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1799	1799	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	surged	surge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	160,000	160,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	660,000	660,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1815	1815	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past · perfect · passive |  | the population of Paris |  |  | during the Revolution | by 100,000 | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by 100000=Destination |
| 2 | **surge** | past | population |  |  |  | after 1799 | with 160,000 new residents | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | gerund | population *not said here* | 660,000 |  |  |  | by 1815 | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 660,000=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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