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title: Spring can bear witness to sandstorms blowing in from the Gobi Deser… — Beijing · tree and pragmatics
description: Spring can bear witness to sandstorms blowing in from the Gobi Desert across the Mongolian steppe, accompanied by rapidly warming, but generally dry, conditions. Who acts: Spring, sandstorms. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beijing» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Beijing, sentence 158

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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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Spring can bear witness to sandstorms blowing in from the Gobi Desert across the Mongolian steppe, accompanied by rapidly warming, but generally dry, conditions.

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**Who acts:** Spring, sandstorms · **What happens:** bear, blow in, accompany, warm · **To what, where:** witness, Mongolian steppe

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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 (Spring, sandstorms), 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:158
# text = Spring can bear witness to sandstorms blowing in from the Gobi Desert across the Mongolian steppe, accompanied by rapidly warming, but generally dry, conditions.
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	sandstorms	sandstorm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Gobi	Gobi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	across	across	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Mongolian	Mongolian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	warming	warm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | can | Spring | witness |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient |
| 2 | **blow in** | gerund | sandstorms |  |  |  |  | across the Mongolian steppe; from the Gobi Desert | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from desert=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **accompany** | participle |  | the Mongolian steppe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **warm** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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