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title: In the beginning of 2010, Beijing had 4 million registered automobil… — Beijing · tree and pragmatics
description: In the beginning of 2010, Beijing had 4 million registered automobiles. Who acts: Beijing. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beijing» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Beijing, sentence 604

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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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In the beginning of 2010, Beijing had 4 million registered automobiles.

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**Who acts:** Beijing · **What happens:** have, register · **To what, where:** million registered automobiles, beginning

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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 (Beijing), 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:604
# text = In the beginning of 2010, Beijing had 4 million registered automobiles.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	registered	register	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	automobiles	automobile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Beijing | million registered automobiles |  |  | in the beginning of 2010 |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent automobile=Patient |
| 2 | **register** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: 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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