Beijing, sentence 655
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.
Because of the growing traffic congestion, the authorities have indicated more than once that they wish to encourage cycling, but it is not clear whether there is sufficient will to translate that into action on a significant scale.
Who acts: congestion · What happens: grow, indicate, wish, encourage, not be, be · To what, where: authorities, cycling, that, action
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 (congestion), 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 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 congestion | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Because | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 congestion | det |
| 4 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 congestion | amod |
| 5 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 congestion | compound |
| 6 | congestion | congestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 indicated | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 congestion | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 authorities | det |
| 9 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 indicated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 indicated | aux |
| 11 | indicated | indicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 indicated | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 wish | mark |
| 14 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 17 wish | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 wish | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 more | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 encourage | mark |
| 19 | encourage | encourage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wish | xcomp |
| 20 | cycling | cycling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 encourage | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 clear | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 clear | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 clear | expl |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 clear | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 clear | advmod |
| 26 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sufficient | amod |
| 27 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 29 is | mark |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 is | expl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 sufficient | cop |
| 30 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 translate | advcl |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 translate | aux |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 translate | mark |
| 33 | translate | translate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 indicated | parataxis |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 translate | obj |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 action | case |
| 36 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 translate | obl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 scale | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 scale | det |
| 39 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 scale | amod |
| 40 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 translate | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 indicated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | indicate | present · perfect · passive | the authorities | the growing traffic congestion advcl | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wish | present | congestion | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | encourage not said to happen | to-infinitive | congestion not said here | cycling | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cycling=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not is | present | clear property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | present | sufficient property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | translate | future | that | into action result; on a significant scale | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent that=Patient into action=Result |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Beijing», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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