Beijing, sentence 50
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 An-Shi Rebellion and again amidst the turmoil of the mid-Tang period, the rebel commander An Lushan founded the short-lived Yan dynasty and called the city Yanjing, or the "Yan Capital".
Who acts: rebel commander · What happens: found, live, call · To what, where: Yan dynasty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rebel commander), 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 | _ | 6 Rebellion | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rebellion | det |
| 3 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Rebellion | det |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Shi | punct |
| 5 | Shi | Shi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rebellion | compound |
| 6 | Rebellion | Rebellion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 founded | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turmoil | cc |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 turmoil | advmod |
| 9 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 11 turmoil | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 turmoil | det |
| 11 | turmoil | turmoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Rebellion | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 period | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 period | det |
| 14 | mid-Tang | mid-tang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 period | compound |
| 15 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turmoil | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 commander | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 commander | det |
| 18 | rebel | rebel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 commander | compound |
| 19 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 founded | nsubj |
| 20 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Lushan | det |
| 21 | Lushan | Lushan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 commander | appos |
| 22 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 short | det |
| 24 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 founded | xcomp |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 lived | punct |
| 26 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 short | parataxis |
| 27 | Yan | Yan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 dynasty | compound |
| 28 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lived | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 called | cc |
| 30 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lived | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Yanjing | det |
| 32 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Yanjing | compound |
| 33 | Yanjing | Yanjing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 called | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Capital | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 Capital | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Capital | det |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Yan | punct |
| 38 | Yan | Yan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Capital | compound |
| 39 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Yanjing | appos |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Capital | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past | the rebel commander | during the Shi Rebellion and the turmoil of the mid-Tang period | short property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | live | past | Yan dynasty | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dynasty=Location | |||||
| 3 | call | past | the city Yanjing xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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