Taipei, sentence 207
From Wikipedia, «Taipei», 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.
Linji Huguo Chan Temple (臨濟護國禪寺) in Zhongshan District was commenced in 1900 and completed in 1911, it is one of the very few Japanese style Buddhist Temples that was well-preserved in Taiwan.
Who acts: 臨濟護國禪寺 · What happens: commence, complete, be, preserve · To what, where: Linji Chan Temple, 1900, 1911, one, Buddhist Temples, Taiwan
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Taipei». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (臨濟護國禪寺), 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 | Linji | Linji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Temple | compound |
| 2 | Huguo | Huguo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Linji | flat |
| 3 | Chan | Chan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Temple | compound |
| 4 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 commenced | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 臨濟護國禪寺 | punct |
| 6 | 臨濟護國禪寺 | 臨濟護國禪寺 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Temple | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 臨濟護國禪寺 | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 District | case |
| 9 | Zhongshan | Zhongshan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 District | compound |
| 10 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Temple | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 commenced | aux:pass |
| 12 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1900 | case |
| 14 | 1900 | 1900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 commenced | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 completed | cc |
| 16 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 commenced | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1911 | case |
| 18 | 1911 | 1911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 completed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 one | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | cop |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 commenced | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 style | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 style | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 few | advmod |
| 26 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 style | amod |
| 27 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 style | amod |
| 28 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 one | obl |
| 29 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Temples | amod |
| 30 | Temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 style | nmod |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 preserved | aux:pass |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 preserved | advmod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 well | punct |
| 35 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 Temples | acl:relcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Taiwan | case |
| 37 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 preserved | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 commenced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence | past · passive | Linji Chan Temple in Zhongshan District | 1900 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | complete | participle | 1911 | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | 臨濟護國禪寺 | one | of the few Japanese style Buddhist Temples | tree rules | |||
| 4 | preserve | past · passive | Buddhist Temples | Taiwan | well property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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, «Taipei», 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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