Beijing, sentence 43
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.
During the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD), the city was first the capital of the subordinate Kingdom of Yan, and later again the seat of Guangyang Commandery after the kingdom was abolished.
Who acts: city · What happens: be, abolish · To what, where: capital, kingdom
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 (city), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 dynasty | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dynasty | det |
| 3 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dynasty | compound |
| 4 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 capital | obl |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 202 | punct |
| 6 | 202 | 202 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 dynasty | appos |
| 7 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 202 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 220 | punct |
| 9 | 220 | 220 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 AD | nummod |
| 10 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 202 | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 202 | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dynasty | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 capital | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 capital | cop |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 capital | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 capital | det |
| 18 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 subordinate | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 subordinate | det |
| 21 | subordinate | subordinate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 capital | nmod |
| 22 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 subordinate | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Yan | case |
| 24 | Yan | Yan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Kingdom | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Commandery | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Commandery | cc |
| 27 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 again | advmod |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 Commandery | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 seat | det |
| 30 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Commandery | compound |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Guangyang | case |
| 32 | Guangyang | Guangyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 seat | nmod |
| 33 | Commandery | commandery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 capital | parataxis |
| 34 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 38 abolished | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 kingdom | det |
| 36 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 abolished | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 abolished | aux:pass |
| 38 | abolished | abolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 Commandery | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 capital | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the city | the capital | during the Han dynasty | of the subordinate; seat Commandery parataxis; first property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | abolish | past · passive | the kingdom | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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