Beijing, sentence 48
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.
After China was reunified by the Sui dynasty in 581, Ji, as the seat of Zhuo Commandery, became the northern terminus of the Grand Canal.
Who acts: Sui dynasty · What happens: reunify, become · To what, where: Ji, 581, northern terminus
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 (Sui dynasty), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 China | case |
| 2 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reunified | obl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reunified | aux:pass |
| 4 | reunified | reunify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 dynasty | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dynasty | det |
| 7 | Sui | Sui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dynasty | compound |
| 8 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reunified | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 581 | case |
| 10 | 581 | 581 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 reunified | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ji | punct |
| 12 | Ji | Ji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reunified | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seat | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 seat | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 seat | det |
| 16 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reunified | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Zhuo | case |
| 18 | Zhuo | Zhuo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 seat | nmod |
| 19 | Commandery | Commandery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Zhuo | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reunified | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 terminus | det |
| 23 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 terminus | amod |
| 24 | terminus | terminus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Canal | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Canal | det |
| 27 | Grand | Grand | PROPN | _ | 28 Canal | compound |
| 28 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 terminus | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reunified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reunify | past · passive | the Sui dynasty | Ji | 581 | after China | as the seat of Zhuo | tree rules | |
| 2 | become | past | the Sui dynasty not said here | the northern terminus of the Grand Canal | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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