Bhutan, sentence 251
From Wikipedia, «Bhutan», 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.
On 13 November 2005, Chinese soldiers crossed into the disputed territories between China and Bhutan and began building roads and bridges.
Who acts: Chinese soldiers · What happens: cross, dispute, begin, build · To what, where: 13, roads
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bhutan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chinese soldiers), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 13 | case |
| 2 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 crossed | obl |
| 3 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2005 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2005 | 2005 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 13 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 13 | punct |
| 6 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 soldiers | amod |
| 7 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crossed | nsubj |
| 8 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 territories | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 territories | det |
| 11 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 territories | amod |
| 12 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crossed | obl |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 China | case |
| 14 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 territories | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Bhutan | cc |
| 16 | Bhutan | Bhutan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 China | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crossed | conj |
| 19 | building | build | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 began | xcomp |
| 20 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 building | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bridges | cc |
| 22 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 roads | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | Chinese soldiers | 13 2005 November | into the disputed territories between China and Bhutan | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into territory=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | dispute | participle | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | Chinese soldiers not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | build | gerund | Chinese soldiers not said here | roads and bridges | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset road=Product |
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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