China, sentence 304
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.
China's population is concentrated in the eastern half of the country; although 64% of China's territory is west of the Heihe–Tengchong Line, as of 2020 only 6.5% of its population lives west of the line.
What happens: concentrate, be, live · To what, where: population, eastern half
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: 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 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 population | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 China | case |
| 3 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concentrated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 concentrated | aux:pass |
| 5 | concentrated | concentrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 half | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 half | det |
| 8 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 half | amod |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 concentrated | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 half | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 west | punct |
| 14 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 22 west | mark |
| 15 | 64 | 64 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 % | nummod |
| 16 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 22 west | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 territory | case |
| 18 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 territory | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 China | case |
| 20 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 % | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 west | cop |
| 22 | west | west | ADV | _ | 5 concentrated | advmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Line | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Line | det |
| 25 | Heihe | Heihe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Line | compound |
| 26 | – | – | PUNCT | _ | 28 Line | punct |
| 27 | Tengchong | Tengchong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Line | compound |
| 28 | Line | Line | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 west | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lives | punct |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 32 2020 | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 as | fixed |
| 32 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 lives | obl |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 6.5 | advmod |
| 34 | 6.5 | 6.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 % | nummod |
| 35 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 39 lives | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 population | case |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 population | nmod:poss |
| 38 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 % | nmod |
| 39 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 concentrated | conj |
| 40 | west | west | ADV | _ | 39 lives | advmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 line | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 line | det |
| 43 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 west | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 concentrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | concentrate | present · passive | China's population | the eastern half of the country | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | of the Heihe Tengchong Line; west property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | present | as 2020; west property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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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