Beijing, sentence 78
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 Qing emperors made some modifications to the Imperial residence but, in large part, the Ming buildings and the general layout remained unchanged.
Who acts: Qing emperors, large part · What happens: make, remain · To what, where: modifications
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 (Qing emperors, large part), 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 | 3 emperors | det |
| 2 | Qing | Qing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 emperors | compound |
| 3 | emperors | emperor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 modifications | det |
| 6 | modifications | modification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 residence | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 residence | det |
| 9 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 residence | amod |
| 10 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 remained | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 part | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 part | case |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 part | amod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 remained | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 buildings | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 buildings | det |
| 18 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 buildings | compound |
| 19 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 part | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 layout | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 layout | det |
| 22 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 layout | amod |
| 23 | layout | layout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 buildings | conj |
| 24 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 25 | unchanged | unchanged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 remained | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Qing emperors | some modifications | to the Imperial residence | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent modification=Product | |||
| 2 | remain | past | large part | unchanged property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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