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title: On 1 October that year, Mao Zedong announced the creation of the Peo… — Beijing · tree and pragmatics
description: On 1 October that year, Mao Zedong announced the creation of the People's Republic of China from atop Tiananmen. Who acts: Mao. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beijing» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Beijing, sentence 106

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From Wikipedia, [«Beijing»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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On 1 October that year, Mao Zedong announced the creation of the People's Republic of China from atop Tiananmen.

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**Who acts:** Mao · **What happens:** announce, create · **To what, where:** creation, atop, Republic

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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 (Mao), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Beijing:106
# text = On 1 October that year, Mao Zedong announced the creation of the People's Republic of China from atop Tiananmen.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Mao	Mao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Zedong	Zedong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	atop	atop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
21	Tiananmen	Tiananmen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Mao | the creation of the People's Republic of China |  | atop | october |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creation=Theme |
| 2 | **create** |  |  | the People's Republic of China |  |  |  |  | nom creation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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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