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title: The attempt by the Boxers to eradicate this presence, as well as Chi… — Beijing · tree and pragmatics
description: The attempt by the Boxers to eradicate this presence, as well as Chinese Christian converts, led to Beijing's reoccupation by eight foreign powers. Who acts: Boxers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Beijing» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Beijing, sentence 87

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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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The attempt by the Boxers to eradicate this presence, as well as Chinese Christian converts, led to Beijing's reoccupation by eight foreign powers.

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**Who acts:** Boxers · **What happens:** eradicate, lead, attempt · **To what, where:** presence, attempt

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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 (Boxers), 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:87
# text = The attempt by the Boxers to eradicate this presence, as well as Chinese Christian converts, led to Beijing's reoccupation by eight foreign powers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Boxers	Boxer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	eradicate	eradicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	16	cc	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
14	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	converts	convert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	reoccupation	reoccupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eradicate** | to-infinitive |  | this presence |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  | the attempt by the Boxers as Chinese Christian converts *not said here* |  |  |  | to Beijing's reoccupation; by eight foreign powers | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to reoccupation=Patient |
| 4 | **attempt** |  | the Boxers |  |  |  |  |  | nom attempt «act transitive»: by=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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