Beijing, sentence 87
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 attempt by the Boxers to eradicate this presence, as well as Chinese Christian converts, led to Beijing's reoccupation by eight foreign powers.
Who acts: Boxers · What happens: eradicate, lead, attempt · To what, where: presence, attempt
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 (Boxers), 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 attempt | det |
| 2 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Boxers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Boxers | det |
| 5 | Boxers | Boxer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 attempt | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eradicate | mark |
| 7 | eradicate | eradicate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 attempt | acl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 presence | det |
| 9 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eradicate | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 converts | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 16 converts | cc |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 14 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 converts | amod |
| 15 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 converts | amod |
| 16 | converts | convert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 attempt | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 led | punct |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 attempt | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 reoccupation | case |
| 20 | Beijing | Beijing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 reoccupation | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Beijing | case |
| 22 | reoccupation | reoccupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 powers | case |
| 24 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 powers | nummod |
| 25 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 powers | amod |
| 26 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 led | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 attempt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eradicate | to-infinitive | this presence | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead | participle | the attempt by the Boxers as Chinese Christian converts not said here | to Beijing's reoccupation; by eight foreign powers | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to reoccupation=Patient | ||||
| 4 | attempt | the Boxers | nom attempt «act transitive»: by=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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