Japan, sentence 140
From Wikipedia, «Japan», 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 oil crisis in 1973 also encouraged the efficient use of energy because of Japan's lack of natural resources.
Who acts: oil crisis, Japan · What happens: encourage, use, lack · To what, where: efficient use, energy, natural resources
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Japan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oil crisis, Japan), 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 | 3 crisis | det |
| 2 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crisis | compound |
| 3 | crisis | crisis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 encouraged | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1973 | case |
| 5 | 1973 | 1973 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 crisis | nmod |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 encouraged | advmod |
| 7 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 use | det |
| 9 | efficient | efficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 use | amod |
| 10 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 encouraged | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 energy | case |
| 12 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 use | nmod |
| 13 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 17 lack | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 because | fixed |
| 15 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lack | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Japan | case |
| 17 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 encouraged | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 resources | case |
| 19 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 resources | amod |
| 20 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lack | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 encouraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encourage | past | the oil crisis in 1973 | the efficient use of energy | because Japan's lack of natural resources | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | energy | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | lack | Japan | natural resources | nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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