--- title: In 784, Emperor Kanmu moved the capital, settling on Heian-kyō (mode… — Japan · tree and pragmatics description: In 784, Emperor Kanmu moved the capital, settling on Heian-kyō (modern-day Kyoto) in 794. Who acts: Emperor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Japan/52/) [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/) / [Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Japan/) / 52 # Japan, sentence 52 From Wikipedia, [«Japan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan), 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. In 784, Emperor Kanmu moved the capital, settling on Heian-kyō (modern-day Kyoto) in 794. **Who acts:** Emperor · **What happens:** move, settle · **To what, where:** capital, 784, Heian kyō This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Japan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor), 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:Japan:52 # text = In 784, Emperor Kanmu moved the capital, settling on Heian-kyō (modern-day Kyoto) in 794. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 784 784 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 Kanmu Kanmu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 settling settle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 Heian heian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 kyō kyō NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 Kyoto Kyoto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 794 794 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | past | Emperor | the capital | | 784 | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent capital=Theme | | 2 | **settle** | gerund | Emperor *not said here* | | | Heian kyō | | in 794 | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 794=Location | 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, «Japan», 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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Japan/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Japan/53/) - ↑ back to [Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Japan/)