Beijing, sentence 58
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 construction took from 1264 to 1293, but greatly enhanced the status of a city on the northern fringe of China proper.
Who acts: construction · What happens: take, enhance · To what, where: 1264, status, northern fringe
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 (construction), 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 construction | det |
| 2 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 1264 | case |
| 5 | 1264 | 1264 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 took | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 1293 | case |
| 7 | 1293 | 1293 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 1264 | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 enhanced | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 enhanced | cc |
| 10 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 11 enhanced | advmod |
| 11 | enhanced | enhance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 status | det |
| 13 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enhanced | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 city | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 status | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 fringe | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fringe | det |
| 19 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fringe | amod |
| 20 | fringe | fringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enhanced | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 China | case |
| 22 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 fringe | nmod |
| 23 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 11 enhanced | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the construction | 1264 to 1293 | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from 1264=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | enhance | past | the construction not said here | the status of a city | the northern fringe of China | greatly, properly property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent status=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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