China, sentence 398

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.

Inspired by Western jazz and boosted by the introduction of recording studios, Mandarin pop music emerged in Shanghai in the 1920s, while the folk rock-inspired Cantopop became popular around Hong Kong during the 1970s.

Who acts: folk · What happens: inspire, boost, emerge, become, introduce · To what, where: Mandarin pop music, Shanghai, recording studios

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 (folk), 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	Inspired	inspire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 jazz	case
3	Western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jazz	amod
4	jazz	jazz	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Inspired	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 boosted	cc
6	boosted	boost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Inspired	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 introduction	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 introduction	det
9	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boosted	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 studios	case
11	recording	recording	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 studios	compound
12	studios	studio	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 introduction	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 music	punct
14	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 music	compound
15	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 music	compound
16	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 introduction	conj
17	emerged	emerge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 music	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 Shanghai	case
19	Shanghai	Shanghai	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 emerged	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 1920s	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 1920s	det
22	1920s	1920s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	17 emerged	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 became	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 folk	det
26	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 became	nsubj
27	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 inspired	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 rock	punct
29	inspired	inspire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 Cantopop	amod
30	Cantopop	Cantopop	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 folk	appos
31	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Inspired	conj
32	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 became	xcomp
33	around	around	ADP	_	34 Hong	case
34	Hong	Hong	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 popular	obl
35	Kong	Kong	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Hong	flat
36	during	during	ADP	_	38 1970s	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 1970s	det
38	1970s	1970s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	31 became	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Inspired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inspire	participle					by Western jazz	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	boost	participle					by the introduction of recording studios and Mandarin pop music	vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	emerge	participle		Mandarin pop music not said here	Shanghai		in the 1920s	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shanghai=Location
4	inspire	participle					rock compound	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	become	past	the folk			during the 1970s	popular property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	introduce			recording studios				nom introduction «act transitive»: of=patient

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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China, sentence 398