--- title: Beijing has a particular historical association with Père David's de… — Beijing · tree and pragmatics description: Beijing has a particular historical association with Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), a species known in Chinese as sibuxiang ("four-unlikes"), which survived extinction only because specimens from the imperial hunting park at Nanyuan were brought to Europe in the 19th century; the species --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Beijing/682/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Beijing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Beijing/) / 682 # Beijing, sentence 682 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. Beijing has a particular historical association with Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), a species known in Chinese as sibuxiang ("four-unlikes"), which survived extinction only because specimens from the imperial hunting park at Nanyuan were brought to Europe in the 19th century; the species was reintroduced to Beijing in 1985 after becoming extinct in China during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. **Who acts:** Beijing, four unlikes · **What happens:** have, know, survive, bring, reintroduce, become · **To what, where:** particular historical association, species, Chinese, extinction, specimens, Europe 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, four unlikes), 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:682 # text = Beijing has a particular historical association with Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), a species known in Chinese as sibuxiang ("four-unlikes"), which survived extinction only because specimens from the imperial hunting park at Nanyuan were brought to Europe in the 19th century; the species was reintroduced to Beijing in 1985 after becoming extinct in China during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. 1 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 historical historical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 association association NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 Père Père PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Elaphurus Elaphurus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 davidianus davidianus NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 species species NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 19 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 sibuxiang sibuxiang NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 unlikes unlike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 survived survive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 34 extinction extinction NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 36 because because SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 37 specimens specimen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Nanyuan Nanyuan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux:pass _ _ 46 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 advcl _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 19th 19th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 52 amod _ _ 52 century century NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ; ; PUNCT : _ 57 punct _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 species species NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 nsubj:pass _ _ 56 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux:pass _ _ 57 reintroduced reintroduce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 58 to to ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 60 in in ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 1985 1985 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 57 obl _ _ 62 after after SCONJ IN _ 63 mark _ _ 63 becoming become VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 57 advcl _ _ 64 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 xcomp _ _ 65 in in ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 66 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 obl _ _ 67 during during ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 69 Boxer Boxer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 70 compound _ _ 70 Rebellion Rebellion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 obl _ _ 71 of of ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 72 1900 1900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 70 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Beijing | a particular historical association and a species | | | | with Père David's deer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent association=Patient | | 2 | **know** | participle | | a species *not said here* | | Chinese | | as sibuxiang | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as sibuxiang=Attribute | | 3 | **survive** | past | four unlikes | extinction | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme extinction=Circumstance | | 4 | **bring** | past · passive | | specimens from the imperial hunting park at Nanyuan | Europe | | century | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to europe=Destination | | 5 | **reintroduce** | past · passive | | the species | Beijing | 1985 | | | tree rules | | 6 | **become** | gerund | | | | | during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 | in China *result*; extinct *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in china=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 681](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Beijing/681/) - next →: [sentence 683](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Beijing/683/) - ↑ back to [Beijing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Beijing/)