Japan, sentence 228
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 country's military, the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF), is restricted by Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which renounces Japan's right to declare war or use military force in international disputes.
Who acts: Article, Japanese Constitution · What happens: restrict, renounce, declare, use, article · To what, where: military, right, war, military force, international disputes, Japanese Constitution
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 (Article, Japanese Constitution), 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 | 2 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 military | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 country | case |
| 4 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 restricted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Forces | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Forces | det |
| 7 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Forces | compound |
| 8 | Self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Defense | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Self | punct |
| 10 | Defense | defense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Forces | compound |
| 11 | Forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 military | conj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 JSDF | punct |
| 13 | JSDF | JSDF | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Forces | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 JSDF | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 military | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 restricted | aux:pass |
| 17 | restricted | restrict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Article | case |
| 19 | Article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 restricted | obl |
| 20 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 Article | flat |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Constitution | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Constitution | det |
| 23 | Japanese | Japanese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Constitution | compound |
| 24 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Article | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 renounces | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 renounces | nsubj |
| 27 | renounces | renounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Constitution | acl:relcl |
| 28 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 right | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Japan | case |
| 30 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 renounces | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 declare | mark |
| 32 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 right | acl |
| 33 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 declare | obj |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 use | cc |
| 35 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 declare | conj |
| 36 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 force | amod |
| 37 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 use | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 disputes | case |
| 39 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 disputes | amod |
| 40 | disputes | dispute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 use | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 restricted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restrict | present · passive | Article of the Japanese Constitution | the country's military and the Japan Defense Forces | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | renounce | present | the Japanese Constitution | Japan's right | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Source | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | to-infinitive | the Japanese Constitution not said here | war | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | use | infinitive | the Japanese Constitution not said here | military force | international disputes | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient | |||
| 5 | article | the Japanese Constitution | nom article «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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Japan», 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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