Japan, sentence 80
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 early 20th century saw a period of Taishō democracy (1912–1926) overshadowed by increasing expansionism and militarization.
Who acts: early 20th century · What happens: see, overshadow, increase · To what, where: period, expansionism
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 (early 20th century), 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 | 4 century | det |
| 2 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 century | amod |
| 3 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 period | det |
| 7 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 democracy | case |
| 9 | Taishō | Taishō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 democracy | compound |
| 10 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 period | nmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 1912 | punct |
| 12 | 1912 | 1912 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 democracy | appos |
| 13 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 14 1926 | case |
| 14 | 1926 | 1926 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 1912 | nmod |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 1912 | punct |
| 16 | overshadowed | overshadow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 1912 | acl |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 increasing | mark |
| 18 | increasing | increase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 overshadowed | advcl |
| 19 | expansionism | expansionism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 increasing | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 militarization | cc |
| 21 | militarization | militarization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 expansionism | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the early 20th century | a period of Taishō democracy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer period=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | overshadow | participle | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | increase | gerund | expansionism and militarization | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer expansionism=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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