China, sentence 418
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.
Chinese Buddhists have developed a unique cuisine that avoids meat, while Chinese Islamic cuisine excludes pork and alcohol.
Who acts: unique cuisine, Chinese Islamic cuisine · What happens: develop, avoid, exclude · To what, where: Chinese Buddhists, meat, pork
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 (unique cuisine, Chinese Islamic cuisine), 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 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Buddhists | amod |
| 2 | Buddhists | buddhist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 developed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 developed | aux |
| 4 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cuisine | det |
| 6 | unique | unique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cuisine | amod |
| 7 | cuisine | cuisine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 developed | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 avoids | nsubj |
| 9 | avoids | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cuisine | acl:relcl |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 avoids | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 excludes | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 excludes | mark |
| 13 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cuisine | amod |
| 14 | Islamic | Islamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cuisine | amod |
| 15 | cuisine | cuisine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 excludes | nsubj |
| 16 | excludes | exclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 avoids | conj |
| 17 | pork | pork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 excludes | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 alcohol | cc |
| 19 | alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pork | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 developed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | develop | present · perfect · passive | Chinese Buddhists | a unique cuisine obj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary cuisine=Product | ||||
| 2 | avoid | present | a unique cuisine | meat | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Location | ||||
| 3 | exclude | present | Chinese Islamic cuisine | pork and alcohol | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer pork=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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