China, sentence 419
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.
Various forms of robe served as the main form of clothing for men and women throughout Chinese history, adapting over the centuries.
Who acts: Various forms · What happens: serve, adapt, form · To what, where: Various forms, robe, clothing
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 (Various forms), 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 | Various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 forms | amod |
| 2 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 robe | case |
| 4 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forms | nmod |
| 5 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 forms | acl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 form | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 form | det |
| 8 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 form | amod |
| 9 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 served | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 clothing | case |
| 11 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 form | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 men | case |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 clothing | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 women | cc |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 men | conj |
| 16 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 18 history | case |
| 17 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 history | amod |
| 18 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 men | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 adapting | punct |
| 20 | adapting | adapt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 forms | acl |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 centuries | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 centuries | det |
| 23 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 adapting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | participle | Various forms of robe not said here | as the main form of clothing for men throughout Chinese history and women | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as form=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | adapt | gerund | Various forms of robe not said here | century | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | form | robe | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | form | clothing for men throughout Chinese history and women | nom form «communication 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.
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