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China, sentence 413

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.

Chopsticks are the main eating utensil.

Who acts: Chopsticks · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: main eating utensil

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 (Chopsticks), 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

nsubjcopdetamodamodpunctrootChopsticksNOUNareAUXtheDETmainADJeatingVERButensilNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ChopstickschopstickNOUNNumber=Plur6 utensilnsubj
2arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 utensilcop
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 utensildet
4mainmainADJDegree=Pos6 utensilamod
5eatingeatVERBVerbForm=Ger6 utensilamod
6utensilutensilNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
7..PUNCT_6 utensilpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1eatgerundvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2is apresentChopsticksthe main eating utensiltree 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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