China, sentence 306
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.
The policy was most strictly enforced in urban areas, while families from ethnic minorities and rural communities were often exempt from one-child limits.
Who acts: families · What happens: enforce, be · To what, where: policy, urban areas, child limits
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 (families), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 policy | det |
| 2 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enforced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enforced | aux:pass |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 strictly | advmod |
| 5 | strictly | strictly | ADV | _ | 6 enforced | advmod |
| 6 | enforced | enforce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 areas | case |
| 8 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 areas | amod |
| 9 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 enforced | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 exempt | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 exempt | mark |
| 12 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 exempt | nsubj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 minorities | case |
| 14 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 minorities | amod |
| 15 | minorities | minority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 families | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 communities | cc |
| 17 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 communities | amod |
| 18 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 minorities | conj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 exempt | cop |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 21 exempt | advmod |
| 21 | exempt | exempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 enforced | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 limits | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 child | nummod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 one | punct |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 limits | compound |
| 26 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 exempt | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enforced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enforce | past · passive | the policy | urban areas | strictly property | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | families from ethnic minorities and rural communities | child limits | exempt, often property | tree rules |
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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