China, sentence 143
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.
According to government surveys, China's forest coverage grew from 10% of the overall territory in 1949 to 25% in 2024.
Who acts: forest coverage, China · What happens: accord, grow, cover · To what, where: 1949
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 (forest coverage, China), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 surveys | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 surveys | compound |
| 4 | surveys | survey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grew | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 surveys | punct |
| 6 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 coverage | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 China | case |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coverage | compound |
| 9 | coverage | coverage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 % | case |
| 12 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 % | nummod |
| 13 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 territory | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 territory | det |
| 16 | overall | overall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 territory | amod |
| 17 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 % | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1949 | case |
| 19 | 1949 | 1949 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 grew | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 % | case |
| 21 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 % | nummod |
| 22 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 19 1949 | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 2024 | case |
| 24 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 % | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | grow | past | China's forest coverage | 1949 | accord government surveys | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1949=Location | |||
| 3 | cover | China | nom coverage «possession transitive»: poss=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, «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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