China, sentence 211
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.
Although China moderated its relations with the West during the reform era, its rise in power has brought political tensions with many of its neighbors and with the United States, the current dominant superpower.
Who acts: China, culture · What happens: moderate, bring, rise · To what, where: relations, rise, power
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 (China, culture), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 3 moderated | mark |
| 2 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moderated | nsubj |
| 3 | moderated | moderate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 relations | nmod:poss |
| 5 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moderated | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 West | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 West | det |
| 8 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moderated | obl |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 era | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 era | det |
| 11 | reform | reform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 era | compound |
| 12 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rise | punct |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 rise | nmod:poss |
| 15 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 power | case |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rise | nmod |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 moderated | parataxis |
| 20 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tensions | amod |
| 21 | tensions | tension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 brought | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 neighbors | case |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 neighbors | amod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 neighbors | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 26 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 brought | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 superpower | cc |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 States | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 States | det |
| 30 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 States | amod |
| 31 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 36 superpower | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 superpower | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 superpower | det |
| 34 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 superpower | amod |
| 35 | dominant | dominant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 superpower | amod |
| 36 | superpower | superpower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 neighbors | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moderated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moderate | past | China | culture's relations | with the West | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent relation=Patient with west=Instrument | |||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect · passive | culture's rise in power | during the reform era | with culture's many neighbors and the current dominant superpower with the United States; political tensions obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination tension=Theme | |||
| 3 | rise | culture | power | nom rise «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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