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title: After China was reunified by the Sui dynasty in 581, Ji, as the seat… — Beijing · tree and pragmatics
description: After China was reunified by the Sui dynasty in 581, Ji, as the seat of Zhuo Commandery, became the northern terminus of the Grand Canal. Who acts: Sui dynasty. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beijing» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Beijing, sentence 48

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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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After China was reunified by the Sui dynasty in 581, Ji, as the seat of Zhuo Commandery, became the northern terminus of the Grand Canal.

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**Who acts:** Sui dynasty · **What happens:** reunify, become · **To what, where:** Ji, 581, northern terminus

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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 (Sui dynasty), 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:48
# text = After China was reunified by the Sui dynasty in 581, Ji, as the seat of Zhuo Commandery, became the northern terminus of the Grand Canal.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	reunified	reunify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Sui	Sui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	581	581	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Ji	Ji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Zhuo	Zhuo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Commandery	Commandery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	terminus	terminus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Grand	Grand	PROPN	NNP	_	28	compound	_	_
28	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reunify** | past · passive | the Sui dynasty | Ji |  | 581 | after China | as the seat of Zhuo | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | the Sui dynasty *not said here* | the northern terminus of the Grand Canal |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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