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Because of the growing traffic congestion, the authorities have indicated more than once that they wish to encourage cycling, but it is not clear whether there is sufficient will to translate that into action on a significant scale. **Who acts:** congestion · **What happens:** grow, indicate, wish, encourage, not be, be · **To what, where:** authorities, cycling, that, action 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 (congestion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:655 # text = Because of the growing traffic congestion, the authorities have indicated more than once that they wish to encourage cycling, but it is not clear whether there is sufficient will to translate that into action on a significant scale. 1 Because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 5 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 congestion congestion NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 authorities authority NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 indicated indicate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 13 than than SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 once once SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 encourage encourage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 cycling cycling NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 expl _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 27 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 29 expl _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 sufficient sufficient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 advcl _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 translate translate VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 34 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 obj _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 significant significant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 scale scale NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **indicate** | present · perfect · passive | | the authorities | | | | the growing traffic congestion *advcl* | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **wish** | present | congestion | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **encourage** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | congestion *not said here* | cycling | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cycling=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | | | | | | clear *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | sufficient *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **translate** | future | | that | | | | into action *result*; on a significant scale | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent that=Patient into action=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 654](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Beijing/654/) - next →: [sentence 656](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Beijing/656/) - ↑ back to [Beijing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Beijing/)