--- title: A rail journey to Beijing takes about 25 hours and 25 minutes (K27 f… — Pyongyang · tree and pragmatics description: A rail journey to Beijing takes about 25 hours and 25 minutes (K27 from Beijing/K28 from Pyongyang, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays); a journey to Dandong takes about 6 hours (daily); a journey to Moscow takes six days. Who acts: rail journey, journey. 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A rail journey to Beijing takes about 25 hours and 25 minutes (K27 from Beijing/K28 from Pyongyang, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays); a journey to Dandong takes about 6 hours (daily); a journey to Moscow takes six days. **Who acts:** rail journey, journey · **What happens:** take This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pyongyang». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rail journey, journey), 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:Pyongyang:243 # text = A rail journey to Beijing takes about 25 hours and 25 minutes (K27 from Beijing/K28 from Pyongyang, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays); a journey to Dandong takes about 6 hours (daily); a journey to Moscow takes six days. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 rail rail NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 K27 K27 PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Beijing/K28 Beijing/K28 PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Pyongyang Pyongyang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Mondays Monday PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Wednesdays Wednesday PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Thursdays Thursday PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 Saturdays Saturday PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Dandong Dandong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 35 about about ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 daily daily ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 Moscow Moscow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 47 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 nummod _ _ 48 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | a rail journey to Beijing | | | | hour; monday | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **take** | present | a journey to Dandong | | | | | daily *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | present | a journey to Moscow | | | | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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, «Pyongyang», 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 242](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Pyongyang/242/) - next →: [sentence 244](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Pyongyang/244/) - ↑ back to [Pyongyang](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Pyongyang/)