Beijing, sentence 158
From Wikipedia, «Beijing», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Spring can bear witness to sandstorms blowing in from the Gobi Desert across the Mongolian steppe, accompanied by rapidly warming, but generally dry, conditions.
Who acts: Spring, sandstorms · What happens: bear, blow in, accompany, warm · To what, where: witness, Mongolian steppe
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Beijing». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spring, sandstorms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bear | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bear | aux |
| 3 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bear | obj |
| 5 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 7 blowing | mark |
| 6 | sandstorms | sandstorm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blowing | nsubj |
| 7 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bear | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 blowing | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Desert | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Desert | det |
| 11 | Gobi | Gobi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Desert | compound |
| 12 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 blowing | obl |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 steppe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 steppe | det |
| 15 | Mongolian | Mongolian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 steppe | amod |
| 16 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blowing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 accompanied | punct |
| 18 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 steppe | acl |
| 19 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 21 warming | mark |
| 20 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 21 warming | advmod |
| 21 | warming | warm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 accompanied | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dry | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 dry | cc |
| 24 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 25 dry | advmod |
| 25 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bear | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 conditions | punct |
| 27 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dry | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | can | Spring | witness | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient | ||||
| 2 | blow in | gerund | sandstorms | across the Mongolian steppe; from the Gobi Desert | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from desert=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | accompany | participle | the Mongolian steppe not said here | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | warm | gerund | rapidly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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