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title: Many expressways of China serve Beijing, as do 15 China National Hig… — Beijing · tree and pragmatics
description: Many expressways of China serve Beijing, as do 15 China National Highways. Who acts: Many expressways. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beijing» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Beijing, sentence 590

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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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Many expressways of China serve Beijing, as do 15 China National Highways.

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**Who acts:** Many expressways · **What happens:** serve, do · **To what, where:** Beijing, 15 China National Highways

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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 (Many expressways), 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:590
# text = Many expressways of China serve Beijing, as do 15 China National Highways.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	expressways	expressway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	serve	serve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Highways	Highway	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | present | Many expressways of China | Beijing |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beijing=Attribute |
| 2 | **do** | present | Many expressways of China *not said here* | 15 China National Highways |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent highway=Eventuality |

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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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