Beijing, sentence 499
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.
The temple's Zhaoxian Pagoda (招仙塔) was first built in 1071 during the Liao dynasty to hold a tooth relic of the Buddha.
What happens: build, hold · To what, where: temple, 1071, tooth relic
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 temple | det |
| 2 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 temple | case |
| 4 | Zhaoxian | Zhaoxian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 temple | appos |
| 5 | Pagoda | Pagoda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Zhaoxian | flat |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 招仙塔 | punct |
| 7 | 招仙塔 | 招仙塔 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Zhaoxian | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 招仙塔 | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 built | aux:pass |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 built | advmod |
| 11 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1071 | case |
| 13 | 1071 | 1071 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 built | obl |
| 14 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 dynasty | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dynasty | det |
| 16 | Liao | Liao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dynasty | compound |
| 17 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 built | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 hold | mark |
| 19 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 built | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 relic | det |
| 21 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 relic | compound |
| 22 | relic | relic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hold | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Buddha | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Buddha | det |
| 25 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 relic | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the temple | 1071 | during the Liao dynasty | first property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | a tooth relic of the Buddha | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relic=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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