China, sentence 123
From Wikipedia, «China», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Chinese civilization was traditionally centered in the lowlands around China's two longest rivers: the Yangtze and the Yellow River, both originating on the Tibetan Plateau.
Who acts: both · What happens: center, originate · To what, where: Chinese civilization, lowlands, Yangtze, Tibetan Plateau
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: who acts (both), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 civilization | amod |
| 2 | civilization | civilization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 centered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 centered | aux:pass |
| 4 | traditionally | traditionally | ADV | _ | 5 centered | advmod |
| 5 | centered | center | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 lowlands | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lowlands | det |
| 8 | lowlands | lowland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 centered | obl |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 rivers | case |
| 10 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rivers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 China | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 rivers | nummod |
| 13 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 rivers | amod |
| 14 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 centered | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Yangtze | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Yangtze | det |
| 17 | Yangtze | Yangtze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rivers | appos |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 River | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 River | det |
| 20 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 River | amod |
| 21 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Yangtze | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 originating | punct |
| 23 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 originating | nsubj |
| 24 | originating | originate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 Yangtze | acl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 Plateau | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Plateau | det |
| 27 | Tibetan | Tibetan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Plateau | compound |
| 28 | Plateau | Plateau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 originating | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 centered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | center | past · passive | Chinese civilization | the lowlands | around China's two longest rivers; traditionally property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | originate | gerund | both | the Yangtze and the Yellow River not said here | the Tibetan Plateau | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yangtze=Patient |
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, «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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