China, sentence 276
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.
Since launching its first satellite in 1970, China has maintained an active space program.
Who acts: China · What happens: launch, maintain · To what, where: first satellite, 1970, active space program
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), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 2 launching | mark |
| 2 | launching | launch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 maintained | advcl |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 satellite | nmod:poss |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 satellite | amod |
| 5 | satellite | satellite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 launching | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1970 | case |
| 7 | 1970 | 1970 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 launching | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 launching | punct |
| 9 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 maintained | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 maintained | aux |
| 11 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 program | det |
| 13 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 program | amod |
| 14 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 program | compound |
| 15 | program | program | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 maintained | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 maintained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | gerund | China not said here | technology's first satellite | 1970 | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent satellite=Theme in 1970=Destination | |||
| 2 | maintain | present · perfect | China | a active space program | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent program=Theme |
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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