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title: Its Art Nouveau-decorated Métro has become a symbol of the city. — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: Its Art Nouveau-decorated Métro has become a symbol of the city. Who acts: Art. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 8

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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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Its Art Nouveau-decorated Métro has become a symbol of the city.

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**Who acts:** Art · **What happens:** decorate, become · **To what, where:** symbol

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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 (Art), 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:8
# text = Its Art Nouveau-decorated Métro has become a symbol of the city.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Nouveau	Nouveau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
6	Métro	Métro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	symbol	symbol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decorate** | participle | city's Art *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | present · perfect | city's Art | a symbol of the city |  |  |  | Métro *nsubj* | 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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