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title: During the An-Shi Rebellion and again amidst the turmoil of the mid-… — Beijing · tree and pragmatics
description: During the An-Shi Rebellion and again amidst the turmoil of the mid-Tang period, the rebel commander An Lushan founded the short-lived Yan dynasty and called the city Yanjing, or the "Yan Capital". Who acts: rebel commander. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beijing» with its dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Beijing, sentence 50

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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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During the An-Shi Rebellion and again amidst the turmoil of the mid-Tang period, the rebel commander An Lushan founded the short-lived Yan dynasty and called the city Yanjing, or the "Yan Capital".

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**Who acts:** rebel commander · **What happens:** found, live, call · **To what, where:** Yan dynasty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rebel commander), 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:50
# text = During the An-Shi Rebellion and again amidst the turmoil of the mid-Tang period, the rebel commander An Lushan founded the short-lived Yan dynasty and called the city Yanjing, or the "Yan Capital".
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Rebellion	Rebellion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	turmoil	turmoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	mid-Tang	mid-tang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Lushan	Lushan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
27	Yan	Yan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Yanjing	Yanjing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Yan	Yan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past | the rebel commander |  |  |  | during the Shi Rebellion and the turmoil of the mid-Tang period | short *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | past |  | Yan dynasty |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dynasty=Location |
| 3 | **call** | past |  |  |  |  |  | the city Yanjing *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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