Beijing, sentence 91
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.
Also required was the execution or exile of government supporters of the Boxers and the destruction of Chinese forts and other defenses in much of northern China.
What happens: require, be, destroy · To what, where: required execution, Chinese forts
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: 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 2 required | advmod |
| 2 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 execution | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 execution | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 execution | det |
| 5 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 exile | cc |
| 7 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 execution | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 supporters | case |
| 9 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 supporters | compound |
| 10 | supporters | supporter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 exile | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Boxers | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Boxers | det |
| 13 | Boxers | Boxer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 supporters | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 destruction | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 destruction | det |
| 16 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Boxers | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 forts | case |
| 18 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 forts | amod |
| 19 | forts | fort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 destruction | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 defenses | cc |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 defenses | amod |
| 22 | defenses | defense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 forts | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 much | case |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 defenses | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 China | case |
| 26 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 China | amod |
| 27 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 much | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 execution | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | participle | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the required execution or exile of government supporters of the Boxers and the destruction of Chinese forts and other defenses | exile of government supporters of the Boxers and the destruction of Chinese forts and other defenses in much conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | destroy | Chinese forts and other defenses in much of northern China | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=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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