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title: China was reunited under the Sui dynasty in 589, which constructed t… — China · tree and pragmatics
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# China, sentence 66

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From Wikipedia, [«China»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China), 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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China was reunited under the Sui dynasty in 589, which constructed the Grand Canal to link Northern and Southern China.

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**What happens:** reunite, construct, link · **To what, where:** China, Sui dynasty, Grand Canal, Northern China

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «China». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:China:66
# text = China was reunited under the Sui dynasty in 589, which constructed the Grand Canal to link Northern and Southern China.
1	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	reunited	reunite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Sui	Sui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	589	589	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	constructed	construct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Grand	Grand	PROPN	NNP	_	15	compound	_	_
15	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	link	link	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reunite** | past · passive |  | China |  | the Sui dynasty |  | in 589 | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **construct** | past |  | the Grand Canal |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canal=Result |
| 3 | **link** | to-infinitive |  | Northern China |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent china=Patient |

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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, «China», 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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